Calling software engineers and developers: do you think you can datafy democratic processes?
Join the Digital Democracy Lab at Beta for a hands-on workshop to explore how we can ensure that both people and democracy stay in the loop in AI systems.
The workshop will offer an interactive environment to apply your technical skills to critical questions of AI governance. Participants will have the opportunity to influence best practices for integrating AI into democratic processes and democratic stewardship of AI systems.
During the interactive session, you will:
Gain hands-on experience with the KT4D Digital Democracy Demonstrator (DDD), including backend access, to understand its architecture and features.
Deepen your understanding of "meaningful / trustworthy frictions" and their role in ensuring democratic stewardship of AI systems.
Engage in a creative challenge to design and prototype meaningful frictions for specific areas of the DDD, pushing the boundaries of human-AI collaboration.
Collaborate to tackle the complex balance between system efficiency, trustworthiness, and democratic values in AI development.
Contribute directly to improving AI-enabled democratic concerns by proposing innovative friction implementations.
Gain insights into the societal implications of AI in democratic processes.
The Trinity College Dublin-led Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D) project is investigating how democracy and civic participation can be better facilitated in the face of rapidly changing knowledge technologies - such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data – to enable actors across society to capitalise on the many benefits these technologies can bring.
By placing cultural studies and humanities at the core of the project we are aiming to build a common ground between the values of participatory democracy and software design. With this approach, the project will develop and validate tools, guidelines and a Digital Democracy Lab Demonstrators platform.
The Digital Democracy Lab at Beta Festival focuses on interactions with software developers working in AI and Big Data to explore the impact of design tools, and processes on democratic principles to ultimately ensure civic participation and avoid ethical repercussions.
