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Global Policy Briefs on AI

A joint initiative of IVADO and the AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa to provide policy makers with evidence-based policy recommendations to navigate key global current AI challenges.

Led by Prof. Catherine Régis and Prof. Florian Martin-Bariteau, the Global Policy Briefs on AI initiative is a joint endeavour of IVADO, Canada's premier AI research and knowledge mobilization consortium at Université de Montréal, and the AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa to develop actionable globally-oriented policy guidance to navigate global AI challenges.

For this first instalment, professors Catherine Régis and Florian Martin-Bariteau convened a group of leading AI experts from around the world to propose policy recommendations on the impact of AI on democracy and electoral integrity. The brief was produced following a week-long retreat hosted by the Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale (SIOI) in Rome, Italy, in December 2024.

The brief “AI in the Ballot Box: Four Actions to Safeguard Election Integrity and Uphold Democracy” by Catherine Régis, Florian Martin-Bariteau, Jake Okechukwu Effoduh,  Juan David Gutiérrez, Gina Neff, Carlos Affonso Souza and Célia Zolynsky will be made available on February 3rd, 2025. 

Launch event

AI and Election Poster
AI Action Week

AI and Elections: A Global Call to Uphold Democracy

Join us on February 10th during the Paris AI Action Week for a conversation to explore the critical challenges AI poses to elections and democracy, and to unpack key recommended actions to safeguard election integrity and uphold democracy.

This project was undertaken thanks to the contribution of the Fonds de recherche du Québec, the CEIMIA, the Canada CIFAR Chair in AI and Human Rights at Mila, and the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Technology and Society, and with the help of the Délégation du Québec à Rome and the SIOI for the organization of the retreat.