Guiding AI to defend and enhance human agency
We are a nonprofit R&D lab building AI tools for coordination and deliberation
How can we use technology for socially beneficial outcomes and long-term resilience?
Our work explores the possibilities through research and experiments with novel AI capabilities — especially those not on the default path of for-profit ventures, including proof-of-concept prototypes and open-source tools.
Current Projects
Talk to the City is an LLM survey tool to improve collective discourse and decision-making — by analyzing detailed qualitative responses to a question instead of limited quantitative data. The project enables automatic analysis of these qualitative reports at a scale and speed not previously possible, helping policymakers discover unknown unknowns and specific cruxes of disagreement.
What does it mean for an AI to represent moral virtue and values, and what components are required to build such systems? Aligning technology to human objectives requires understanding those objectives, and the virtues and values behind them. We build on the rational meaning construction method described in Wong et al 2023 to build generative models from natural language statements using an LLM-based translator.
The AI Supply Chain Observatory works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption. AISCO offers a platform for practitioners to share and publish practices that strengthen supply chains and improve resiliency. The Observatory’s focus includes systemic risks associated with panic-buying, accelerated market volatility, and Black Swan events.
Read more: Current AOI Projects
