Driverless Democracy? AI Meets CI
Beth Simone Noveck
There is a great deal of public attention to the question of how to govern artificial intelligence ethically and responsibly to mitigate risks. However, artificial intelligence also creates unprecedented opportunities to reinvigorate participatory democracy and enable new forms of collaboration and co-creation. Our conversation focused on the impact of artificial intelligence on the ability of institutions to leverage the collective intelligence of communities and thereby foster more responsive, effective and equitable governance. We discussed how institutions are currently using AI and how AI could radically transform the way we govern, make decisions and solve problems together.
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Biography
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, with joint appointments in the School of Law, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and the College of Arts, Media and Design. She directs the Burnes Center for Social Change, The Governance Lab, and the MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance.
Outside of Northeastern, Noveck is visiting senior faculty fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University and a fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. She now serves as the first-ever Chief Innovation Officer for the state of New Jersey and sits on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Digital Council. Her latest book, Solving Public Problems: How to Fix Our Government and Change Our World, was published in 2021 by Yale Press.
President Obama previously appointed Noveck the first-ever United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative. She also served as a senior advisor for Open Government under U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. Today, she is a member of numerous committees, including the Scholars Council of the Library of Congress, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Centre for the Mathematics of Precision Healthcare, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Technology, Values, and Policy.
Noveck, who earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, and her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, has been named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company and one of the “Top Women in Technology” by Huffington Post.