AI and Development
The AI and Development initiative incubates projects using technology to better serve the world's poor. Developing economies have already built out mobile phone networks and internet connections. This infrastructure allows the fluid movement of information, and increasingly enables decisions to be made by algorithms. We consider how algorithms can be used in service of the poor, and how they can be made more robust, transparent, and better aligned with societal values.
The AI and Development Initiative is led by CDEP Affiliate Daniel Björkegren.
Current Projects
Training Machine Learning To Anticipate Manipulation
Investigators: CDEP Affiliate Daniel Björkegren, Joshua Blumenstock, and Samsun Knight
Auditing the Values Underlying Policies
Investigators: CDEP Affiliate Daniel Björkegren, Joshua Blumenstock, and Samsun Knight
Welfare-Sensitive Machine Learning
Investigators: CDEP Affiliate Daniel Björkegren, Joshua Blumenstock
Completed Projects
Assessing Digital Bias in Developing Countries
Investigators: Sveta Milusheva, CDEP Affiliate Daniel Björkegren, and Leonardo Viotti
The cover image was generated by AI (Midjourney, with the prompt, ‘Rwandan child with a curious smile looking at the sky which has an illuminated interconnected network that represents artificial intelligence in the style of minority report, in a vibrant cartoon style’)