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Centre for Democratic Futures

@cdfuos.bsky.social

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The Centre for Democratic Futures is an interdisciplinary research network collaborating internationally from the University of Southampton email us: cdf@soton.ac.uk www.southampton.ac.uk/research/inst…

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Rebooting Democracy welcomed international guests and collaborators to a project workshop last week in Southampton. Sessions focused on climate democracy, using AI in deliberation, political behaviour, co-production, and democratic oversight of emerging technologies. www.rebootingdemocracy.ac.uk

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Join us for the launch of Lala Muradova's (@lalamur.bsky.social) new book in the Cambridge Elements series, Empathy and Political Reasoning. With star discussants Florian Foos, Tereza Capellos and Konstantinos Katsikopoulous. 7 May, 12pm UK. Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On the left is the book cover for Empathy and Political Reasoning. On the right is headshots of Lala Muradova and the three discussants and date and time of the event.

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our final presentation is from Nick Almond, CEO of Factory Labs, on London VOICE. An attempt to create a community LLM controlled and owned by the people.

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We now move on to Simon Wallace CTO at Suffrago, introducing their approach to using generative AI to build next generation polling.

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our third Lighting Talk is from Sebastian Stein, asking how we can ensure AI systems are citizen-centric. They need to be: citizen-aware, citizen-beneficial, citizen-sensitive, citizen-auditable, and citizen-owned.

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Next up, Mbang Young examines the issues of data security in the AI present, from Syri to Deepseek. Who do we trust government or private companies? Who is control of this data?

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Kicking off our AI and Democracy Knowledge Exchange event with @richardgomer.bsky.social discussing participatory visions for the AI city. How can we ensure that the adoption of AI has a citizen-centric rather than a corporate-centric design?

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We have two great speakers for our next Climate, Mobility and Migration Online Seminar on 4th March. You can register at t.ly/gv5ng.

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Centre for Democratic Futures @cdfuos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We had a busy and brilliant morning of talks and networking from across @unisouthampton.bsky.social at our first in person @cdfuos.bsky.social event. Gr8 to hear lots of exciting new projects developing too! Huge thanks to everyone who came! 👀 this space Let us hear your ideas 2! cdf@soton.ac.uk

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