Rebooting Democracy: Democratic innovation for the information age

在我担任研究员期间，我进行了开创性的研究，并带头开展创新活动，领导一个团队探索和设计民主创新的技术增强。运用人工智能、设计方法论和社会科学的混合方法，我合并了数据，并分析和比较了案例，以得出民主的教训。我设计了一种软件，使用参与式方法来设计技术和干预措施，将人类经验和民主程序的透明度放在首位。这个项目是由赋予公民权力、加强社区安全以及通过了解哪些干预措施建立和加强民主活动来增强对社会机构的信心的愿望推动的。它包括为经常被边缘化的声音腾出空间，遏制仇恨言论，并确保社区在公共话语和治理中的多元化参与。我的重点在于创建跨学科的数据科学工具，允许分析政治文本、演讲和视频。该方法包括构建高级模型，以回答相关的研究问题，并导航在民主参与中部署算法的伦理和社会后果。项目团队致力于设计和设计超越暂时成功的民主软件，重点是使干预措施适应各种治理、工作场所和社区环境。我们的目标是建立关于如何在任何需要做出集体决定的地方使用技术的知识，并以和平和公平的方式处理分歧。我们将开发人工智能干预措施，以增强现有的民主创新，这些干预措施是务实的，适用于日常环境。我们渴望了解如何对这些创新进行最佳排序，以实现透明度、信任和相互监督。这包括进行随机对照试验，并使用其他研究方法，以确定何时以及如何介入以恢复对机构的信任，从而加强对新兴技术的治理。奖学金支持我领导英国的一个多学科研究和创新中心，该中心热心地致力于维护和丰富民主。该项目旨在提供涉及许多科学学科的新颖研究，为英国及其他地区的经济和社会繁荣做出贡献。

In my fellowship I have conducted groundbreaking research and spearheaded innovative initiatives, leading a team to explore and devise technological enhancements for democratic innovation. Employing a mix of artificial intelligence, design methodologies, and social science, I've amalgamated data, and analysed and compared cases to draw out lessons for democracy. I have designed software using participatory methods to craft technologies and interventions that prioritise human experience and transparency in democratic procedures.This project is driven by the aspiration of empowering citizens, bolstering the safety of communities, and heightening confidence in societal institutions through understanding which interventions build and fortify democratic activities. It involves making space for often marginalised voices, curbing hateful speech, and ensuring diverse community participation in public discourse and in governance. My focus lies in the creation of interdisciplinary data science tools that allow for analysis of political text, speech, and video. The approach involves constructing advanced models that answer pertinent research questions and navigate the ethical and social consequences of deploying algorithms in democratic engagement.The project team is committed to designing and engineering democracy software that transcend temporary successes, with an emphasis on adapting interventions to a variety of governance, workplace, and community settings. We aim to build knowledge about how techniques can be used wherever we need to make collective decisions, and deal peacefully and fairly with disagreement. We will develop AI interventions that augment existing democratic innovations, that are pragmatic and applicable in day-to-day contexts. We aspire to understand how these innovations can be sequenced optimally for transparency, trust, and mutual oversight. This involves carrying out randomised controlled trials and employing other research methods to ascertain when and how to step in to restore trust in institutions, and consequently, enhance the governance of emerging technologies.The fellowship supports me to lead a multidisciplinary research and innovation hub in the UK, one that is fervently devoted to preserving and enriching democracy. This project aims to deliver novel research involving many scientific disciplines contributing to a flourishing economy and society in the UK and beyond.