Build AI tools that strengthen democratic deliberation and collective decision-making (founded by the late Peter Eckersley).
AOI builds open-source tools that let governments hear thousands of citizens at once, used in Taiwan and Tokyo. It is a small nonprofit focused on making AI serve democracy.
Focus
- Human oversight
- Benefit sharing
- Transparency
Funding, as far as we know
Future of Life Institute grant; Survival & Flourishing Fund; donations - https://futureoflife.org/grant/ai-objectives-institute/
What they've actually done
Deployed 'Talk to the City' with Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs for AI-policy assemblies and 2024 election platform analysis
2023-2024
Talk to the City used for 1,000-respondent 'broad listening' polls before the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election
2024-07
Appointed Colleen McKenzie as executive director after Eckersley's death
2023