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The Laude Institute Slingshot resources are helping researchers turn ideas into real-world impact. If you are a computer scientist working on new research. @LaudeInstitute Apply now: slingshots.laude.org
🚨 NEW PAPER: “Democratic AI is Possible: The Democracy Levels Framework Shows How It Might Work” #icml2025 AI is reshaping our world. How should we steer its development? We introduce the Democracy Levels Framework to define concrete milestones toward meaningfully…
Glad to be an @Ethereum 10th-anniversary torchbearer.🔦 We’ve had a super ride & the future is set to be even brighter.🌞 Some highlights from along the way: ▶️ youtu.be/a38bI04ZWSI?t=… ▶️ youtu.be/9FbXNDBdSr0?t=… ▶️ youtu.be/n3R4ze2hesk?t=9 ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/PEObBSw… #LLAP
We did it! Team Mirai, founded by Takahiro Anno, has officially emerged as a national political party, making digital democracy the heart of its manifesto. In the 2025 July House of Councillors election, the new party captured 2.6% of the vote—over 1.4 million ballots cast…
今回の参院選、チームみらいは、党首・安野たかひろが比例代表にて当選となりました。 また、公選法上の政党要件を満たす得票率2％を獲得し、国政政党になることができます。 サポーターの皆さま、寄付で応援してくださった皆さま、投票してくださった皆さまのおかげで #安野たかひろを国会へ…
The DNC Tech team provides infrastructure, data, tools, and technical and cybersecurity expertise to organizations throughout the Democratic ecosystem. They are hiring for a number of roles, check them out here: jobs.lever.co/dnc
America Votes seeks a National Director of Engineering & Product to manage the eng team to provide tools for strategic planning, campaign coordination, data tools & targeting services, and on-the-ground leadership in key states. @AmericaVotes Apply now: americavotes.isolvedhire.com/jobs/1506924
What are the promises of AI? What are the perils? @zittrain joined @aleks_madry to discuss the legal & societal challenges posed by autonomous AI. Check it out!
Season 2 of Before AGI rolls on! This week I sat down with Harvard Law professor & Berkman Klein Center co-founder @zittrain to ask: What happens when AI agents don’t just assist—but act for us? Insights into law, tech & trust in an autonomous-agent world incoming!
Birds of a feather should stick together.✅ Enlightening & expansive dialogue in Taipei with Keita Ishii, president, COO & CSO of Itochu Corporation.♾ Taiwan🇹🇼 & Japan🇯🇵 are natural partners working to #FreeTheFuture — together! #LLAP🖖
Swing Left seeks a Head of Technology to lead the Engineering & product team through its next phase of growth and transformation. Use technology to help more people have a greater impact in the 2026 election and beyond. @swingleft Apply now: swing-left.breezy.hr/p/a5d9177270cb…
Job alert! We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher working with @RosariaTaddeo @oiioxford to join the research group on Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies. Full-time, fixed term role for 41 months, starts 1 Oct 2025. Apply today! bit.ly/40faOPP #hiring
The industry has made it clear: effective blockchain policy must incentivize decentralization. DRC and 50 other leading stakeholders in the crypto industry just delivered a joint letter to @SpeakerJohnson, @RepJeffries, @LeaderJohnThune, and @SenSchumer in support of the CLARITY…
The Startup Party, led by young technologists, aims to reboot Japan's democracy. kazuneiwasa.medium.com/the-startup-pa…
Coopertive AI seeks Programme Manager to lead diverse projects, ranging from academic fellowship programmes to online workshops or in-person events, and develop processes across the team. @coop_ai Apply now: cooperativeai.com/job-listing/pr… Application Deadline 03 August 2025 23:59 GMT
EVENT: Tech+Democracy Meetup London Meet other people working at or interested in the intersection of tech and democracy. Hosted by: @sparkable_cc & @howtobuildpeace Thursday, July 17 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM GMT Register now: lu.ma/wcxff4ne
Great paper for the Plurality, and especially @PluralityInst community out from one of the most prominent computer scientists and statisticians today, Michael Jordan: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06268
Catch up on all the Edge City news in this monthly update! ✨ Edge Expedition to Bhutan (almost sold out!) ✨ the latest on Edge City Patagonia (early bird rates still available) ✨ reflections on @EdgeEsmeralda ✨ Inflection Grantees, and more! Link below! ⬇️
🇪🇺Prof. @bethnoveck recently keynoted the EuroPCom Conference, exploring how AI can help rebuild trust in democracy. The conference brought together communicators, leaders & changemakers to discuss bridging gaps between policies & people's realities. 🤝 #europcomm
It was great to catch Collective Intelligence Project's talk today at the AI Democracy Coworking Day! @divyasiddarth @collect_intel
x.com/PluralityInst/… The AI Objectives Institute seeks Senior Software Engineer, Backend for their Talk to the City program, an open-source, LLM-based platform for distilling insights from large-scale public input. The organization striving for covering both abstracts/nuances.
The AI Objectives Institute seeks Senior Software Engineer, Backend for their Talk to the City program, an open-source, LLM-based platform for distilling insights from large-scale public input. @AIObjectives Learn more & apply: ai.objectives.institute/senior-swe-bac…
The Case Against Planetary Governance: Democracy is in crisis. New piece by Wolfgang Streeck for @CombinationsMag explores how we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike. @wstreeckblog Read more: combinationsmag.com/the-case-again…
