Make.org launches two global initiatives to put A.I. in service of society

Democratic Commons is a Make.org initiative in collaboration with Sciences Po, and Sorbonne-CNRS which will bring together over 50 researchers and engineers for a two-year period. Its goal is to develop and disseminate an open-source conceptual framework for applying democratic principles to the use of AI, along with a model for assessing biases in large language models (LLMs), corrected unbiased LLMs and citizen participation platforms that adhere to these principles.This interdisciplinary effort combines advanced expertise in data science with a deep understanding of social sciences, supported by five globally renowned partners: Hugging Face, Aspen Institute, Mozilla.ai, Project Liberty Institute, and Genci.To ensure the quality and relevance of its findings, a Supervisory Scientific Council has been established, featuring international luminaries such as Yochai Benkler (Berkman Klein Center), Hélène Landemore (Yale), Karine Perset (OECD.ai), Asma Mhalla (EHESS/CNRS - Columbia), Raja Chatila (Sorbonne-Université), Michelle Barsa (Omidyar Network), and Djame Seddah (Inria).