
Shepard-AI
Shepard-AI is a free, open-source AI co-regulator app meant to guide people through panic attacks, trauma triggers and executive dysfunction in real time.
Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
The Israel Tech Policy Institute (ITPI) is a policy think-tank and research institute founded in Tel-Aviv in 2018. Unique in the Israeli tech policy landscape, the ITPI provides a platform for research and policy discourse across a range of stakeholders, including industry, academia, government and civil society. ITPI aims to support technological innovation while protecting individual rights and public interests and respecting social norms. We seek to create an open channel for policy debates about ethical, regulatory, and societal implications of emerging, cutting-edge technologies, thereby impacting policy-shaping and ethical design and implementation of new technologies.


Shepard-AI is a free, open-source AI co-regulator app meant to guide people through panic attacks, trauma triggers and executive dysfunction in real time.

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