This initiative, part of Smart City activities, is focused on how AI/ technology can help drive voter participation, with a focus on senior citizens and young first-time voters. Join the global Google group on the topic - Credible Elections with AI Lead Technologies

Our collaborations are in: Computing, Journalism, Security, Law and Political Sciences, and involves concerned researchers, non-profits, government bodies and companies.

Workshops

1. Third Workshop on AI for Credible Elections: A Call to Action, in conjunction with 38th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Andrea Hickerson, Tarmo Koppel, Chris Dawes, Sachindra Joshi, Ponnaguram Kumaraguru, Feb 2024. [Summary]

2. Second Workshop on AI for Credible Elections: A Call to Action, in conjunction with 37th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Andrea Hickerson, Tarmo Koppel, Chris Dawes, Sachindra Joshi, Feb 2023. [Summary]

3. Workshop on AI for Credible Elections: A Call to Action, in conjunction with Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Huan Liu, Natwar Modani, Tarmo Koppel, Dec 2021. [Summary]

Papers

1. Kausik Lakkaraju, Sara Elizabeth Jones, Bharath Muppasani and Biplav Srivastava, A Dataset of Generalizable Election-Related Questions for AI Tools Compiled from Leading Global Democracies, AAAI 2024 Workshop on AI and Credible Elections [paper, slides]

2. Bharath Muppasani, Vishal Pallagani, Kausik Lakkaraju, Shuge Lei, Biplav Srivastava, Brett Robertson, Andrea Hickerson, Vignesh Narayanan, On Safe and Usable Chatbots for Promoting Voter Participation, AI Magazine; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aaai.12109, 2023 [Chatbot, Voter Engagement]

3. Vignesh Narayanan, Brett W. Robertson, Andrea Hickerson, Biplav Srivastava and Bryant W. Smith, Securing social media for seniors from information attacks: Modeling, detecting, intervening, and communicating risks, The Third IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (IEEE CogMI), 2021. [Cyberspace, Seniors]