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⏳ Las candidaturas están abiertas para la Incubadora New Commons 2026 sobre Lenguas Indígenas. 🌱 La Incubadora busca apoyar a los equipos liderados por indígenas para transformar su concepto de data commons en una propuesta. 📅 ¿Te interesa? Presenta tu candidatura ahora en newcommons.ai

New Commons — The Incubator

New Commons is a six-month, Indigenous-led incubator that helps teams design a fundable data commons for their languages and cultures.

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🤖 AI systems create both opportunities and challenges for Indigenous communities, making community leadership as important as ever. 📅 Apply to the New Commons Incubator by August 14 to develop a data commons for Indigenous language and cultural resources. newcommons.ai #AIforGood #ResponsibleAI

New Commons — The Incubator

New Commons is a six-month, Indigenous-led incubator that helps teams design a fundable data commons for their languages and cultures.

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(5/5) Building on the success of the 2025 New Commons Challenge, the Incubator aims to strengthen community agency, support language revitalization, and help ensure Indigenous peoples can shape the future of AI on their own terms. Learn more and apply at newcommons.ai.

New Commons — The Incubator

A six-month capacity-building program that supports Indigenous-led teams in developing a fundable data commons proposal

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💥 Today is an important milestone. We’re excited to launch the #ObservatoryofPublicSector AI, a new research initiative focused on one important question: What builds government capacity in the age of AI? Over the past year, more than 150,000 public servants across the United States have participa

(1/5)🏆 Today, The GovLab, UNESCO, & Microsoft, with a Steering Committee of Indigenous data experts, launched the New Commons Incubator for Indigenous Languages and Culture It supports Indigenous-led efforts to develop data commons that preserve, steward & govern language & cultural resources

New Commons — The Incubator

New Commons is a six-month, Indigenous-led incubator that helps teams design a fundable data commons for their languages and cultures.

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⏳ Applications are open for the 2026 New Commons Incubator on Indigenous Languages and Cultures. 🌱 The Incubator seeks to support Indigenous-led teams in transforming their data commons concept into a proposal. 📅 Interested? Apply now at newcommons.ai by August 14. #AIForGood #DataCommons

New Commons — The Incubator

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New Commons — The Incubator

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The new #CAIDPAIIndex shows most governments now agree on core AI governance principles. The real divide is implementation. April Yoder and Grace Thomson call for institutions, oversight, and a trained public workforce to turn commitments into practice

Progress on Global AI Governance: The CAIDP AI Index and Implications for the Public Sector

The 2026 CAIDP AI Index, ranking AI policy commitments across 90 countries, shows that while most governments now agree on core governance principles, the real divide lies in implementation. Many are advancing laws, oversight, and public participation, but progress lags in turning commitments into practice. As the baseline shifts from whether to govern AI to how, the report underscores that outcomes depend less on frameworks and more on the capacity of public institutions—and the civil servants within them—to operationalize these principles in everyday decisions.

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In her latest #ResearchRadar, Elana Banin examines a new World Health Organization paper on AI and evidence-informed policymaking. She asks whether health institutions can realistically adapt to shape how these systems are used.

Research Radar: AI as a Multiplier for Evidence-Informed Policy

A new WHO discussion paper explores how AI can accelerate research synthesis and keep evidence continuously up to date. Elana Banin welcomes the push to use AI to strengthen the evidence-to-policy pipeline, but argues the more consequential question is whether AI will redefine what counts as evidence in the first place. The harder constraint will ultimately be institutional, as most health workers lack the training and infrastructure to adopt these tools. Government decision-makers must start building the processes to test AI outputs against frontline knowledge and the capacity to make that adoption defensible.

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A high school journalist, Amedeo Bettauer, asks: whose experiences actually shape the debates on AI? While headlines focus on risk, everyday uses are helping families, students, and small businesses right now. These cases deserve the attention of journalists and policymakers.

Who Gets to Define the AI Debate? A Youth Perspective

A high school journalist reflects on who is shaping the public conversation about AI. While headlines focus on risk and disruption, everyday uses of AI are already helping families access benefits, students learn, and cities deliver services. The gap, Amedeo Bettauer argues, is in between those whose experiences count in defining the debate and those in power who seek out diverse experiences.

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#BasqueCountry’s new transparency law (to be passed on May 14) formally embeds collaboration into how decisions are made. It newly requires traceable input and visible processes. AI isn’t central yet, but could support participation at scale in a whole new way. Read the #GlobalAIWatch post:

Governing with Others: The Basque Country Turns Collaboration into Rule of Law

As the Basque Government moves to pass a new Transparency Law this May, it is redefining what transparency means. No longer just about access to information, the law embeds collaborative governance into its core, requiring that decision-making processes be open, traceable, and shaped with others. This piece explores what it looks like to turn participation from a principle into a legal obligation, and what it takes to make participation a structured, accountable part of how policy is made.

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Virginia reviewed decades of rules before bringing in AI. The result: 35.7% fewer requirements, 12M words cut, and clearer guidance. A practical model for regulatory reform that works for how people live and work. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-regu...

Read @bethnoveck.bsky.social's interview with Matti Schneider on a key choice government's face: use AI to generate answers, or build systems like #OpenFisca that apply the law step by step. For rights and benefits, accuracy and auditability matter.

A Dozen Interns on Cocaine: What One of the Longest-Running Civic Tech Projects Reveals About AI in Government

What happens when governments rely on systems that sound right instead of being right? Drawing on OpenFisca’s spread from France to governments across Europe, Africa, and Oceania, Beth Simone Noveck’s interview with Matti Schneider makes the case for public infrastructure that computes the law, as well as the risks of sidelining it as generative AI scales globally.

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What does it take to make large-scale public input usable? By pairing AI with open, shareable data, California's #OfficeofDataandInnovation team shows how transparency, code, and human judgment can turn thousands of comments into something others can build on.

How we used AI to lift the voices of California state employees

Using AI to analyze over 2,400 employee comments, California’s Engaged California team found that the challenge wasn’t the scale of the data, but making sense of complex, layered input without oversimplifying it. Their experience shows why human judgment remains essential, from building taxonomies to catching errors, as results can shift significantly depending on how AI is applied and what people choose to trust and prioritize.

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AI governance is growing fast, but not evenly. MIT Risk Initiative mapping 1,000+ policies shows where attention clusters and where gaps remain across socioeconomic impacts and upstream design.

What AI Governance Documents Actually Cover and What They Don’t

AI governance is expanding fast, but not evenly. A new analysis from MIT and Georgetown’s CSET maps over 1,000 governance documents to show that while policies are proliferating, they cluster around familiar risks and sectors, leaving key gaps across socioeconomic impacts, upstream design, and everyday domains. The result, as relayed by research member Yan Zhu, is a more precise picture of what AI governance actually covers, what it still overlooks, and where policymakers should focus in the future.

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In this #GlobalAIWatch, Anirudh Dinesh draws on his family's experience in India to show how tools like xAI’s Grok reinforce beliefs—creating “generative echo chambers.” Mixed research suggests this could shape polarization globally.

But Grok Said So! How AI is Enabling Political Polarization

Across contexts like India, where author Anirudh Dinesh’s family lives, AI chatbots such as xAI’s Grok are increasingly used not to inform but to generate arguments that reinforce existing political views, creating “generative echo chambers.” Unlike passive social media exposure, users actively prompt AI to validate positions, often producing confident but inaccurate claims that go unchecked. While some research suggests AI can moderate views in neutral dialogue, real-world use skews toward advocacy, compounded by low verification and high trust in outputs. The result is that AI may not just reflect polarization, but actively deepen it, depending on how these systems are designed and used.

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AI can cut public funding, or help communities access it. In @fastcompany.com, @bethnoveck.bsky.social shows how #GrantWell helps local governments navigate complexity and claim the funds already set aside for them. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/grantwe... 🔗 www.fastcompany.com/91525531/gra...

Reboot Democracy's #ResearchRadar: AI’s biggest risk isn’t a single failure, it’s a slow drift. Less agency, weaker shared reality, more automated dependence. @elonuniversity.bsky.social's 386 experts say resilience must be built as infrastructure, not left to individuals.

The New Human Resilience Challenges Posed by AI

In “Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age,” based on insights from 386 global experts, a warning emerges: the greatest risk is not a single catastrophic event, but a slow drift toward diminished human agency, fragmented reality, and growing dependence on automated systems. Lee Raine and Janna Anderson reflect on how, as AI becomes society’s invisible operating system, individual resilience is no longer enough. The report argues for urgent, coordinated action to build resilience as shared infrastructure across governments, institutions, and communities to ensure people can still question, contest, and shape the systems increasingly shaping them.

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We’re launching #RethinkingRegulationwithAI. Across countries, regulation is growing faster than institutions can process. ReguLens, built with @ilo.org, helps organizations analyze proposals and engage earlier in policy debates. Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/policy-...

🚨 Last call—happening tomorrow! Join The GovLab, NYU Alliance for Public Interest Tech & Brooklyn Public Library for a hands-on session to design data-driven questions for NYC in the age of AI. 📅 Mar 27 | ⏰ 2–3:30 PM 📍 Brooklyn Central Library Rregister now! www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/ope...

Open Data and Better Questions: Engaging New Yorkers to Develop Questions that Matter in the Age of AI | Brooklyn Public Library

The GovLab, Brooklyn Public Library, and Alliance for Public Interest Technology at New York University will be hosting a special “Questions Lab” as part of New York City Open Data Week 2026.

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