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Code for America is hiring, remote in the US: Engineering Manager ($129-158K), Principal Software Engineer ($144-176K), and an Emerging Technology & AI Governance Lead ($129-158K). Building tools so government works for everyone. wellfound.com/company/code-f… @codeforamerica
Cosmos Institute announced its largest grant cohort yet: 80 new grantees across AI for Human Autonomy, AI for Truth-Seeking, and Philosophy x AI, funding projects like a nonpartisan legislative AI assistant. A boost for plural tech. blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/… @cosmos_inst
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Plurality.Institute retweeted
Reverse Alignment is a big, bold idea.✨
It got the Platform Originals luxmaxx treatment.💎
Gratitude to hlb, Tenzin & friends for the co-creation.🙏
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Early Glimpses of a Robust Public Consultation System in San José, California nationalcivicleague.org/ncr-…
ACTE White Paper on the European Civic Tech Hub about.make.org/articles-en/a…
How one of the fastest-growing cities in Kentucky used AI to plan for the next 25 years medium.com/jigsaw/how-one-of…
Impacts of Citizens’ Assemblies: A Summary of the Latest Research peoplepowered.org/news-conte…
WeVis: Supporting participatory democracy in Thailand through locally developed digital tools peoplepowered.org/news-conte…
Elected officials don’t always understand their communities. Can civic assemblies bridge the gap?
US cities are turning to randomly selected residents to help resolve divisive policy debates theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Realizing the Potential Gains of AI-Enabled Deliberative Democracy
Democratic institutions currently lack the capacity needed to govern AI-augmented deliberation in ways that serve democratic imperatives. carnegieendowment.org/resear…
People Don’t Know What They Want - Article by Shutaro Aoyama on the need for AI tools to not only aggregate people’s opinions and propose agreeable policies, but also help people self-reflect on their position before a democratic process. blu3mo.substack.com/p/people…
Paper: Mechanism Design Is Not Enough: Prosocial Agents for Cooperative AI – supervised by Zhijing Jin arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08426
Article: The interfaith effort to address the challenges of AI -- including what researchers call, "one of the first multi-faith sets of tests that examines how AI systems engage with a plurality of religions."
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Plurality.Institute retweeted
It’s 2035, and AI has gone well. What could a normal day in your life look like?
Most popular AI futures are dystopias. Almost no one takes the time to seriously and vividly imagine a future that's actually worth building.
So we made a short film following one day in the life of an AI auditor in 2035, in a world radically transformed by AI for the better.
Digital twins model how people’s unique physiologies respond to illness. Sensors stop pandemics before they start. AI helps governments actually listen to citizens by synthesizing vast amounts of data into actionable policy suggestions, but humans stay in control and make the final call.
If this resonates, please share to spread the word about positive AI futures!
AI for Democracy Movements: Toward a New Agenda. A new report summarizes key insights from the Nonviolent Action Lab’s December 2025 convening on how artificial intelligence can empower pro-democracy movements. ash.harvard.edu/resources/ai…
The Trust and Safety Research Conference hosted by the Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center is Oct 1-2, 2026!
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