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92NY Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact
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How AI Can Strengthen Our Democracy

Mutale Nkonde and Lawrence Lessig
Mutale Nkonde and Lawrence Lessig

As Artificial Intelligence becomes more deeply integrated into society, we can already see its impact on democratic processes where it has raised critical questions about governance, ethics and the balance of powers.

What can we do to improve AI to align with democratic values, including accountability, fairness, and inclusivity? What can we do to create ways that protect and enhance our democratic process with the continued development of AI?

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Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde, pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, her research focuses on the role AI driven content moderation …

Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde, pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, her research focuses on the role AI driven content moderation plays on shaping civic discourse and its impact on minoritized groups. She is also founder of the non profit AI for the People, which advocates for the development of processes and policies that reduce the expression of algorithmic bias. And she is a past fellow at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard.

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School …

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he taught at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He holds an honorary degree from the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, UCLouvain, Belgium, Lund Univeristy, Sweden, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam. Lessig is the founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons. He serves on the Scientific Board of AXA Research Fund, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous awards including a Webby, the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Scientific American 50 Award, and Fastcase 50 Award. Lessig’s early work focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. His current work addresses the failure of democracy, and innovations to reform democracy. He is the author of hundreds of articles and essays, and a dozen books, including: They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy (2019), Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (2019), America, Compromised (2018), Republic, Lost v2 (2015), The USA is Lesterland (2014), One Way Forward (2012), Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It (2011), Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (2008), Code v2 (2006), Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001), and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge University, and a JD from Yale

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