We're thrilled to be working with MIT Media Lab Prof. Sandy Pentland as one of the selected projects of the MIT call for papers on the societal implications of generative AI. Congratulations to all the recipients! news.mit.edu/2023/mit-schol…

In the absence of a one-size-fits-all intervention, the design of democracy & freedom interventions must be tailored to the democracy outcomes they seek to address. 3ie's analysis can help implementers design context-responsive interventions. Read brief: bit.ly/3rmYwqq

Check out one of the awesome PhD candidates on the market from @MITPolisci news.mit.edu/2023/nicole-wi… Nicole Wilson Noah Nathan Danny Hidalgo Evan Lieberman MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT SHASS for Students

In 2021, Anisha Singh conducted interviews with 24 experts from government nudge units, academia, and behavioral science research organizations as part of the practitioner-in-residence program at MIT GOV/LAB. 3/5

NEW! "The communities your research aims to benefit should be at the front and center of projects. All too often, ethics come as an afterthought." -Anisha Singh reflects on #behavioralscience research in developing contexts in our guide w/ Busara Center busara.global/our-works/befo…

Welcoming our new Technical Associate, Nat Rabb, to the lab and MITPoliticalScience! Check out our latest blog post to see what he'll be working on: mitgovlab.org/news/welcome-n…

Honored to have two papers selected for this project. “Auditing Data Provenance for Large Language Models” w/ Deb Roy and “Direct Democracy and Generative AI” w/ MIT GOV/LAB

📮New blog post! Our 2021 Practitioner in Residence Luke Jordan has a new World Bank working paper that builds on his time at the lab to explore if donor ratings of development projects are correlated to outcomes. Words by Will Sullivan mitgovlab.org/news/contextua…

The lab is thrilled to support this project with a Gov/Lab student seed grant. Congratulations Jerik Cruz!

We're at the MIT Libraries Open Data Prize presentations celebrating Jerik Cruz's winning project, OpenAudit! Check out our blog for more on the work: mitgovlab.org/news/unearthin… MITPoliticalScience Ateneo School of Government

Here Lily Tsai presents fascinating work from  MIT GOV/LAB on how to rebuild trust and social cohesion, how to jumpstart a virtuous cycle (and as #MITAlum, always great to hear about what’s up at @MITPolisci 😊)

Our first two student (Mariama Ndiaye + Deepika Raman) case studies exploring how public innovations are sparked and sustained across resource-constrained contexts are now available! New cases will be shared this fall. In collab w/ MIT PKG Center MISTI mitgovlab.org/resources/gove…

We're closing out 2023 on a high note! 🎆 A round up of our favorite stories on research & work with partners on the future of #governance, using #AI/ML tools for accountability, lessons on governance #innovation, & the importance of #trust mitgovlab.org/news/top-5-sto… Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Professor Lily Tsai @MITGOV/LAB is just back from Imagination Action Davos 2024, a January 17 convergence of global visionaries and innovators.  Lily spoke on the GenAI: Navigating New Frontiers in Politics panel. imaginationinaction.co/davos-2024#spe… MIT Center for International Studies MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

New case studies! Our student summer fellows in Mexico City (Eli Epperson) and Kenya (Leonard Francis Vibbi) write about the single sign-on system developed by Agencia Digital de Innovación Pública and Kenya's participatory budgeting system. Latest additions: mitgovlab.org/resources/gove… MISTI MIT PKG Center

Continuing our work with strengthening democracy - new collaborative paper on how #GenAI can be a tool to promote civil discourse and usable citizen input to inform policy; with a framework to assess potential opportunities & risks w/ platform integration. mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/mn45hexw/r…