In this #GlobalAIWatch piece, I share three hard choices in designing AI-enabled public engagement, based on input from 50 experts across 24 countries. Without action, engagement becomes performative. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/designi...

Alister Martin, Ar’Sheill Monsanto, Timothy Scheinert, and Austin Tsai ask: how do we use AI not just to make public systems easier to use, but to improve outcomes? @linkhealth.bsky.social shows one path. But we still lack evidence on what works at scale. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-equi...

As Sarosh Nagar and @eaves.ca of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social + @ucl.ac.uk describe, AI agents are already acting autonomously and interacting in open environments. How to govern that well? Trust infrastructure, multi-agent coordination, and public sector capacity. 👾 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-agen...

Nhial Deng grew up in Kakuma refugee camp, excluded from opportunity. Years later, he saw young people using AI to build skills, income, and futures. AI is already an economic opportunity layer, but fragile without design. Read: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/from-ac...

$17.5B in federal funding is available to MA communities, but much of it goes untapped. GrantWell, built with the state, uses AI to help municipalities find, understand, and apply for grants, starting from real community needs. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/reducin...

Government comms doesn’t have to be boring. Find the “true thing,” talk like a human, be platform-native, and treat AI like a teammate, not a substitute. Trust isn’t built through perfect messaging. It’s built through real stories. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/storyte...

Iran didn’t just adopt AI, it conscripted it. This #GlobalAIWatch by Dr. Sara Bazoobandi shows how ideology shaped a centralized AI system built for control and why that design creates hidden fragility. A must-read for democracies building AI infrastructure. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/iran-ai...

Drafting a course on "Designing Democratic Engagement for the AI Era," we asked 50+ experts from 24 countries for feedback. The result: 300+ comments. Using AI, we synthesized the input into 12 curriculum improvements. What we learned ↓ 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-demo...

In today's #ResearchRadar, Neil Kleiman explores how civic AI compacts can connect city governments with campus AI capacity w/ @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org 📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/civic-a... 📰 www.route-fifty.com/artificial-i...

How can AI help human services agencies work better for both staff and the people they serve? Robert Asaro-Angelo reflects on lessons from leading @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social's Department of Labor in launching a new workshop series: AI and Human Services. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-huma...

#SouthAustralia is debating how AI could improve government services. But efficiency alone won’t build trust. New commentary from Matt Ryan explores lessons on participatory AI governance, public-sector capability, and reinvesting efficiency gains. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/sa-need...

A conversation with @loreleikelly.bsky.social on how deliberative technology and AI could help modernize the connection between citizens and Congress. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/assembl...

AI agents will soon interact directly with government systems, querying data, navigating portals, and generating traffic across public infrastructure. Boston is testing a #ModelContextProtocol. Reboot Democracy: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/boston-... Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com/91504876/bos...

AI is often framed as a threat to jobs. But it can also expand access to work. @mrsethharris.bsky.social shares how states can use AI to identify and remove unnecessary degree requirements and advance skills-based hiring. A path to equity and efficiency: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-for-...

Recent tensions between the U.S. Dept of Defense and Anthropic highlight that the government isn’t just regulating AI, it’s one of its largest customers. Procurement shapes markets. Will we shape AI by default or by design? Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/public-ai

Universities are rapidly adopting commercial AI tools. A new paper warns that research integrity standards already raise concerns about transparency and independence. For many in the public sector, refusal isn’t realistic. Where do we go from here? Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...

Enterprise AI access doesn’t have to mean multi-million-dollar-per-seat contracts. NJ built inside its own cloud (~$1/user/month). Boston’s pilot is under $10K year one. Pricing structure matters as much as model performance. Read today's #AIforGovernance piece: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/how-bos...

📖 Read this week’s #NewsThatCaughtOurEye: rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...

AI safety isn’t universal. #UbuntuGuard, led by researchers at @brownpublichealth.bsky.social and collaborators, shows that models that pass English benchmarks can fail when tested against locally grounded policy rules across African languages. Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ubuntu-...

Presidents’ Day honors those who have held the nation’s highest office. But trust in government is built inside agencies day to day. Max Stier of @ourpublicservice.bsky.social explores how AI can strengthen cultures of recognition and performance. Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/minding...

In our latest #GlobalAIWatch, @hickokmerve.bsky.social lexamines South Korea’s $73.5B public investment in a national foundation model and asks whether smaller language models, energy efficiency, and stronger evaluation may be wiser bets. Read: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/korea-p...

150+ parents helped co-design an AI tool to make IEPs clearer and more accessible. As #AIEP’s San Francisco pilot wraps, we’re sharing what it reveals about building AI with communities. 📖 Read the blog: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/co-desi... 🗓️ Workshop @ 2:00 PM ET: innovate-us.org/human-center...

Public engagement matters. Designing it well is hard. Dane Gambrell and I co-wrote a new #AIforGovernance blog on how AI can support participation. We’re building a course, "Designing Democratic Engagement for the AI Era," and seeking feedback. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/doing-d...

From insights at the @opengovpartnership.org Summit to @boston.gov, @mayorwu.boston.gov redesigned permitting to show how wicked decluttering can use AI to reorganize rules around human intent—without weakening safeguards. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/wicked-...

Early AIEP prototypes “worked” but failed where it mattered, developing polished summaries that didn’t answer the real questions parents need to advocate for their kids. That failure reshaped the tool by putting families in the loop. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/unboxin...

Governments don’t fail because they experiment. They fail because they don’t. Cassandra Madison argues governments need safe places to fail early, so AI systems don’t fail at scale. Experimentation isn’t a side project. It’s public infrastructure. 📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/experim...

#GlobalAIWatch: Mapping schools in Uzbekistan and Bhutan showed how data that looks complete on paper can miss what matters on the ground. Spatial data, participation, and AI helped connect evidence to real decisions. Not louder data, just clearer. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/mapping...

At the airport, you look into a camera, get a green checkmark, and walk through. That moment depicts both the promise and risk of AI in government. New #RebootDemocracy post featuring @randomwalker.bsky.social on why predictive models need governance. 📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/predict...

We launched the #ObservatoryofPublicSectorAI, one of the largest datasets to date on how public servants learn, use, and adapt AI at work. Our goal is to build the evidence on what strengthens government capacity. Learn more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/launchi...

📖 Read this week’s #NewsThatCaughtOurEye: rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...

Language is one of the most underestimated barriers to democratic access. The Government of India's #Bhashini program shows what’s possible when multilingual AI is treated as public infrastructure, so people can be understood by the systems meant to serve them. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/voices-...

The #CommonwealthofVirginia is using AI to modernize regulatory review, including analyzing statutes, reducing duplication, and clarifying rules. On the #RebootDemocracy blog, the “Virginia Model” shows how other states can strengthen regulatory capacity with AI. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-and-...

#ResearchRadar: Access to the law shapes whether rights exist in practice. This piece examines how fragmented NLRB data limits workers' power and how NLRB Research uses AI and open-source tools to make labor law more usable. Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/nlrb-da...

How does AI move from pilot to public infrastructure? In a new #RebootDemocracy interview, Dave Cole unpacks how New Jersey is scaling responsible AI across agencies backed by the Public Benefit Innovation Fund. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-publ...

Interesting read from the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social l: Charles Martinet & Yohann Ralle explore whether shared compute and cooperation could help mid-sized economies build frontier AI while retaining sovereignty. Worth a look: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/mid-siz...

What’s the right way to organize government for real problem-solving? A background paper by Geoff Mulgan and Caio Werneck argues that cities need flexible ways of working across boundaries. Join the Bloomberg Center for Cities tomorrow for the conversation. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...

Governments from Virginia to Ohio to San Francisco are using AI to cut regulatory clutter. But efficiency alone isn’t reform. In From Red Tape to Green Tape, I argue AI must be paired with collective intelligence. 🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/green-t...

How can research turn community input into real policy? This #ResearchRadar shows how CA used deliberation, digital tools & AI to turn wildfire survivor input into a recovery action plan. 📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc... 🎥 innovate-us.org/building-a-b...

After months of learning in our InnovateUS series, the lesson is democracy works when governments can listen, learn, and act on public input. From Taiwan to California, it shows engagement tied to decisions reduces polarization and builds trust. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/deliber...

📖 Read our weekly #NewsthatCaughtOurEye: rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...

Today I testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation on the Future of Constituent Engagement 📍 Live testimony www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYk... 📌 Topic: The Future of Constituent Engagement with Congress rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/future-...

@oecddigital.bsky.social contributors outline a practical blueprint for public AI, mapping power across compute, data & models, and showing how policy can reduce dependence on frontier labs through a gradient of democratic, public-interest infrastructure. 📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/public-...

🔔 #InnovateUS Spring 2026 workshops are live Next semester is shaped by listening to what helps in practice: shared learning, practical judgment, and skills grounded in public service. Reflection by Agueda Quiroga: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/learnin...

New #ResearchRadar: a look at @cip.org Digital Twin Evaluation Framework and what it reveals about the limits of letting AI speak for people. AI models are starting to act as stand-ins for real communities. But can synthetic publics actually represent us? rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...

Jennifer Sellitti shares how #NewJersey is using secure, state-built AI tools to strengthen fairness at the #OECD Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice. @oecdgovernance.bsky.social @oecddigital.bsky.social @oecddigital.bsky.social rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/human-b...

News That Caught Our Eye: the weekly review of AI + governance news that matters: rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaug...

JOIN ME starting now 2 pm EST for Listening to the Public with AI. Part of the @thegovlab.org @innovateus.bsky.social series on deepending public engagement with AI. innovate-us.org/listening-to...

We talk a lot about evaluating AI outputs, such as safety tests, red teaming, and alignment. But far less about the data practices that shape those outputs in the first place. Read more by Stefaan Verhulst and Friederike Schüür→ rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/toward-... #GlobalAIWatch #DataGovernance

The White House debuted its national AI platform for scientific discovery with a 100% stock footage promo. But the real risks aren't clichés: 1️⃣ Centralizing research with no democratic oversight 2️⃣ Building a corporate, closed environment 3️⃣ Ignoring research for communities Read more: bit.ly/4iyoGwp

A national AI “moonshot” with no public input? My #ResearchRadar analysis asks hard questions about the #GenesisMission and who it really serves. Full piece → rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...