AI and the Future of Democracy
The Vanderbilt Open Dialogue Fellows Program Presents a Community Conversation:
AI and the Future of Democracy
Featuring Beth Simone Noveck
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
1:10-2:30 PM
@ Medicine, Health, and Society, 300cc Calhoun Hall
Open to all VU students, faculty, staff, community members, classes, friends, and neighbors
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab (The GovLab). She is faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI, School of Law, and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Design, and Media, the College of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
Profesor Noveck’s work focuses on using AI to reimagine participatory democracy and strengthen governance, and she has spent her career helping institutions incorporate more equitable and open ways of working using new technology. Her newest book Democracy Rebooted: How AI Can Save Democracy will appear with Yale University Press,
Today, she leads the GovLab’s InnovateUS initiative, which trains public sector professionals in AI, digital and innovation skills.
Panel discussion to follow brief presentation, then q/a