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UAE Agentic Government Services

The UAE's Agentic AI for Government Services is a national framework mandating that AI "agents" power 50% of government sectors, services, and operations by 2028, redesigning services so residents state a need in plain language and the AI completes it.

2026

Informational Democracy

A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.

2026

Humans First

Humans First is a conservative social movement that is dedicated to ensuring that the future of AI is in the hands of everyday people.

The Midas Project

The Midas Project is a watchdog nonprofit working to ensure that AI technology benefits everybody, not just the companies developing it.

OpenYC

OpenYC is an early-stage effort to build a publicly-funded, democratically-governed "public alternative to Y Combinator", a digital public infrastructure for incubating and codifying AI-native digital public goods as a public utility.

Citizens' Track on AI

An initiative to use participatory practice to address the democratic deficit in AI governance, and bring greater alignment with the public interest, agency for communities, and accountability to AI governance.

UK
2026

Cassandra Foundation

Independent, non-profit research organisation studying the macroeconomics of the AI transition and the policy mechanisms for a fair one, with research in the UK parliamentary record.

Marylebone, London, UK
2026

Democratic Digital Commons

Together, we will run a series of assemblies across Europe to understand our current digital infrastructure & governance, and reimagine, showcase & demand a Democratic Digital Commons.

European Union (EU)
2026

City AI-Policy Toolkit

A public toolkit of templates, prompts, workflows, examples, and evaluation checks for municipal AI governance.

USA