EP 1020 Could AI Save Our Democracy?

While we often catastrophize about the perils of AI, if we walk on the sunny side of the street, could it be that the tools available with the new technology may help us to save our broken politics and governance?  Our guest, Beth Simone Noveck, not only thinks that these tools can be beneficial, if used with that intent, but she’s put a number of these practices in action and seen it work.  She is a professor and director of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, and she leads the Governance Lab and InnovateUS, the fastest growing AI learning community for public sector professionals.  She is the author of the new book, “Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy.”  In it, she provides a number of examples of how governments across the globe are using AI to write better laws, deliver services more efficiently and fairly and create useful opportunities for citizen participation in a meaningful way.  The transparency and openness created by these approaches help government re-earn trust that has been lost over the years.  She’s a compelling presenter.

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