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Beth Simone Noveck
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BLOG: https://rebootdemocracy.ai. All things AI policy, democracy, government. BIO: https://thegovlab.org/beth-simone-noveck.html. Prof #AIforImpact #InnovateUS @Northeastern @BurnesCenter @TheGovLab, Chief AI Strategist @NJGOV, @OSTP44 BLOG
Governments don’t fail because they experiment. They fail because they don’t.

Cassandra Madison argues governments need safe places to fail early, so AI systems don’t fail at scale.

Experimentation isn’t a side project. It’s public infrastructure.

📖 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/experim...
Experimentation as Public Infrastructure
Governments are adopting powerful new technologies faster than their systems are built to learn. This piece by Cassandra Madison at the Center for Civic Futures argues that responsible innovation requ...
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February 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
#GlobalAIWatch: Mapping schools in Uzbekistan and Bhutan showed how data that looks complete on paper can miss what matters on the ground.

Spatial data, participation, and AI helped connect evidence to real decisions. Not louder data, just clearer.

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Mapping the School, Seeing the System: How Spatial Context Reshaped Public Decision-Making in Uzbekistan and Bhutan
Mapping schools in Uzbekistan and Bhutan revealed how data that appeared complete on paper often missed what mattered on the ground, like distance, access, and everyday conditions. By treating geograp...
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January 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
At the airport, you look into a camera, get a green checkmark, and walk through.

That moment depicts both the promise and risk of AI in government. New #RebootDemocracy post featuring @randomwalker.bsky.social on why predictive models need governance.

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Prediction Isn’t Intelligence: How Predictive Models Really Work in Government
A hiring tool changes your "personality" score based on whether there's a bookshelf behind you in an interview. A hospital model suggests asthmatics are safer—because it learned how to respond to the ...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
We launched the #ObservatoryofPublicSectorAI, one of the largest datasets to date on how public servants learn, use, and adapt AI at work.

Our goal is to build the evidence on what strengthens government capacity.

Learn more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/launchi...
Launching the Observatory of Public Sector AI: An Invitation to Build the Evidence Base Together
We’re launching the Observatory of Public Sector AI, a new research initiative of InnovateUS and The GovLab that draws on data from more than 150,000 public servants nationwide. By analyzing how publi...
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January 26, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Language is one of the most underestimated barriers to democratic access.

The Government of India's #Bhashini program shows what’s possible when multilingual AI is treated as public infrastructure, so people can be understood by the systems meant to serve them.

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Voices in Every Language: How India is Building More Inclusive AI
India's Bhashini platform is democratizing access to digital services for 1.4 billion people by treating multilingual capability as public infrastructure. Through crowdsourced voice donations and open...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The #CommonwealthofVirginia is using AI to modernize regulatory review, including analyzing statutes, reducing duplication, and clarifying rules.

On the #RebootDemocracy blog, the “Virginia Model” shows how other states can strengthen regulatory capacity with AI.

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AI and the Future of State Regulation
This piece examines how the Commonwealth of Virginia is using artificial intelligence to modernize regulatory review, shifting the focus from regulating AI to governing with it. Drawing on recent refo...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM
#ResearchRadar: Access to the law shapes whether rights exist in practice.

This piece examines how fragmented NLRB data limits workers' power and how NLRB Research uses AI and open-source tools to make labor law more usable.

Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/nlrb-da...
The NLRB Has a Data Problem. One Lawyer Is Using AI to Fix It.
U.S. labor law is shaped by thousands of decisions issued each year by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the courts, yet much of this precedent remains difficult for workers, organizers, a...
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January 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
How does AI move from pilot to public infrastructure? In a new #RebootDemocracy interview, Dave Cole unpacks how New Jersey is scaling responsible AI across agencies backed by the Public Benefit Innovation Fund.

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Using AI to Improve Public Services in New Jersey: An interview with Dave Cole
New Jersey’s Office of Innovation has received a Public Benefit Innovation Fund grant to expand its AI platform with tools that help residents access benefits faster and with fewer errors. In this con...
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January 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Interesting read from the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social l: Charles Martinet & Yohann Ralle explore whether shared compute and cooperation could help mid-sized economies build frontier AI while retaining sovereignty.

Worth a look: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/mid-siz...
Can mid-sized economies come together to build frontier AI?
Conventional wisdom presents mid-sized economies with two options for accessing advanced AI: rely on American or Chinese systems, or fall behind. Neither choice preserves the technological sovereignty...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
What’s the right way to organize government for real problem-solving?

A background paper by Geoff Mulgan and Caio Werneck argues that cities need flexible ways of working across boundaries.

Join the Bloomberg Center for Cities tomorrow for the conversation.

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Research Radar: The City as Mesh and New Ways of Organizing for Effective Problem Solving
The City as Mesh by Geoff Mulgan and Caio Werneck offers a powerful new framework for organizing cities to tackle cross-cutting challenges. This Research Radar examines their new paper and argues for ...
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January 6, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Governments from Virginia to Ohio to San Francisco are using AI to cut regulatory clutter.

But efficiency alone isn’t reform.

In From Red Tape to Green Tape, I argue AI must be paired with collective intelligence.

🔗 rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/green-t...
From Red Tape to Green Tape: Decluttering the State with AI and Collective Intelligence
Governments are increasingly using AI to identify redundant, outdated, and burdensome regulations. But efficiency alone is not reform: without public judgment, simplification can weaken essential prot...
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January 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
How can research turn community input into real policy?
This #ResearchRadar shows how CA used deliberation, digital tools & AI to turn wildfire survivor input into a recovery action plan.

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Research Radar: How Research Drove a Community-Led Action Plan for LA Wildfire Recovery
This Research Radar examines how California’s Office of Data and Innovation used a rigorous, community-driven approach to translate thousands of survivor contributions from the LA wildfires into a con...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
After months of learning in our InnovateUS series, the lesson is democracy works when governments can listen, learn, and act on public input.

From Taiwan to California, it shows engagement tied to decisions reduces polarization and builds trust.

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Using AI to Support Public Deliberation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang
In this workshop, Audrey Tang and Danielle Allen discuss how AI-enabled civic technologies, paired with radical transparency and thoughtful institutional design, can help democracies respond to proble...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Today I testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation on the Future of Constituent Engagement

📍 Live testimony www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYk...

📌 Topic: The Future of Constituent Engagement with Congress rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/future-...
Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation: “The Future of Constituent Engagement with Congress”
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December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@oecddigital.bsky.social contributors outline a practical blueprint for public AI, mapping power across compute, data & models, and showing how policy can reduce dependence on frontier labs through a gradient of democratic, public-interest infrastructure.

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Public AI: Policies for democratic and sustainable AI infrastructures
This analysis by OECD.AI contributors offers a clear, practical blueprint for “public AI.” It maps where power concentrates across the AI tech stack, such as compute, data, and models, and shows how g...
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December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🔔 #InnovateUS Spring 2026 workshops are live

Next semester is shaped by listening to what helps in practice: shared learning, practical judgment, and skills grounded in public service.

Reflection by Agueda Quiroga: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/learnin...
Learning Together to Improve Public Service
Since its creation in 2023, InnovateUS’s training offerings have supported public professionals in making sense of change together, building capacity, and strengthening their ability to make informed ...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New #ResearchRadar: a look at @cip.org Digital Twin Evaluation Framework and what it reveals about the limits of letting AI speak for people.

AI models are starting to act as stand-ins for real communities. But can synthetic publics actually represent us?

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Research Radar: Synthetic Data Is Redefining Representation
As governments experiment with AI to simulate public opinion, new questions are emerging about who these systems truly represent. This Research Radar examines the Collective Intelligence Project’s Dig...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
JOIN ME starting now 2 pm EST for Listening to the Public with AI. Part of the @thegovlab.org @innovateus.bsky.social series on deepending public engagement with AI. innovate-us.org/listening-to...
Workshop: Listening to the Public with AI
InnovateUS provides no-cost, at-your-own pace, and live learning on data, digital and innovation skills for public servants like you.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We talk a lot about evaluating AI outputs, such as safety tests, red teaming, and alignment. But far less about the data practices that shape those outputs in the first place.

Read more by Stefaan Verhulst and Friederike Schüür→ rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/toward-...

#GlobalAIWatch #DataGovernance
Toward AI Governance That Works: Examining the Building Blocks of AI and the Impacts
As governments and international bodies race to establish guardrails for AI, most of the global agenda still focuses on managing what AI systems produce—their outputs. This article argues that such an...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The White House debuted its national AI platform for scientific discovery with a 100% stock footage promo.
But the real risks aren't clichés:
1️⃣ Centralizing research with no democratic oversight
2️⃣ Building a corporate, closed environment
3️⃣ Ignoring research for communities
Read more: bit.ly/4iyoGwp
Research Radar: The White House Wants a Scientific Genesis. It May Trigger a Democratic Exodus
The Trump Administration’s Genesis Mission aims to unify federal supercomputers, datasets, and AI systems into a single national platform for scientific discovery. But as Beth Simone Noveck argues, th...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A national AI “moonshot” with no public input? My #ResearchRadar analysis asks hard questions about the #GenesisMission and who it really serves.

Full piece → rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
Research Radar: The White House Wants a Scientific Genesis. It May Trigger a Democratic Exodus
The Trump Administration’s Genesis Mission aims to unify federal supercomputers, datasets, and AI systems into a single national platform for scientific discovery. But as Beth Simone Noveck argues, th...
rebootdemocracy.ai
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM