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5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI

The NonProfit Times

There are many access points to this technology. But also, publishing civil society work with meticulous attention to detail and context, often invisible to others, fosters diversity for future LLMs. Her email is mwebb@techsoup.org The post 5 Ways For Civil Society To Engage With AI appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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Civil society and the splitting of the US

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Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash Civil society organizations are on the front lines of advocating for or against the most divisive issues in the United States. The links are almost entirely to civil society organizations fighting to protect the rights to free expression, free assembly, voting, reproduction, and work.

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Civil Society Signal and Noise?

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There are lots of efforts to ensure access - the EU's Digital Services Ac t, proposed legislation called the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act in the US, and the Coalition for Independent Technology Research - but none are perfect and all must reckon with serious concerns about people's privacy. This is a sector-wide issue.

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Digital dependencies in civil society, November 2022 edition

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We founded the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford in 2014 to examine and act on the ways digital dependencies effect civil society. What skills, expertise, and practices do nonprofits, foundations and other associations need access to in order to collect, use, store, and destroy data safely and effectively?

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Others, like the Ford, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, and Omidyar Network, have focused on building the capacity to address the risks and opportunities posed by a wide range of technologies, including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence. Building government (and civil society) capacity to use AI. The future is now.

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Digital civil society's dependencies come into stark view

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I've been arguing for several years now that civil society is dependent on digital systems, which are not neutral, designed with civil society in mind, or inately democratizing. This is the entire premise of the Digital Civil Society Lab. That's another way of saying civil society is digital civil society.

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

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I want to think about what it means - if anything - for civil society. First, it seems that no one in civil society or the U.S. So, perhaps its way too much of an ask to expect recognition among their own of the behemoth of technology development.