About
The AI × democracy space is growing fast. New organizations are forming, researchers are publishing, tools are being built, and coalitions are taking shape — often without knowing who else is working on the same problems.
This catalog exists to change that.
We believe the people working at the intersection of AI and democratic governance deserve a shared resource that reflects the full breadth of the field — not curated by any single funder, institution, or point of view. A place where a grad student can find the organizations worth following, where a foundation can see who's doing serious work beyond the usual suspects, where a practitioner can discover collaborators they didn't know existed.
The field moves faster when it can see itself whole.
How it works
Anyone can submit a resource. A rotating group of editors — practitioners, researchers, and connectors from across the ecosystem — reviews submissions and maintains the catalog over 3-month terms. No single organization owns it. No single perspective dominates it. The editors change so the catalog stays honest.
What belongs here
Organizations, research, tools, people, funding opportunities, and initiatives working at the intersection of AI and democracy — broadly defined. The bar isn't exhaustiveness, it's quality. Every entry here has been reviewed by someone with domain knowledge and a stake in the field's integrity.
Who this is for
Researchers and academics mapping the field. Funders looking beyond the visible layer. Practitioners trying to find collaborators and avoid duplicating work. Students and early-career professionals figuring out where they fit and who's doing work worth joining.
If you're trying to understand this space, work in it, or fund it — this catalog is for you.
Origin
This started as a Notion page. Sean Ahrens was ramping up on AI safety and kept finding himself drawn to the intersection of AI and democracy — the organizations, the research, the people building at this frontier. He started collecting links for his own reference, and the list kept growing. Eventually it outgrew Notion, and in March 2026 he built this site to turn a personal bookmark collection into a shared resource for the field.
Get involved
Submit a resource. Become an editor. Share the catalog with someone who should know it exists.
This only works if the people who know this space help build it.
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This catalog exists because the AI × democracy ecosystem deserves a shared resource that belongs to all of it — not to any single organization, funder, or point of view. Editors are the people who make that real. You're not just maintaining a list; you're helping a fragmented field see itself whole, find collaborators, and move faster together.
It's a small role with outsized leverage.
Editors serve in 3-month terms, renewable, though we actively seek fresh perspectives with each rotation. Expect to spend 1–4 hours per week, depending on submission volume and ecosystem activity.
During your term, you'll…
- Review, approve, deny, and organize new resource submissions using our shared CRM within 3–4 days of receipt
- Actively promote the catalog within your network to surface submissions from people who know this space well
- Flag when the catalog's categories, coverage, or structure need to evolve as the space shifts
- Bring judgment to what belongs here — and what doesn't
What good editorship looks like
Be connected, not omniscient. You don't need to know every corner of this space — much of what gets added will come through submissions. What matters is that you can get the catalog in front of the right people: researchers, practitioners, and organizations who'll recognize what's missing and send it your way. Your network is as valuable as your knowledge.
Judge signal from performance. Some efforts in this space have outsized visibility relative to their impact. Others do serious work quietly. Good editors can tell the difference, and they're honest about it even when it's uncomfortable.
Curate, don't collect. The goal isn't comprehensiveness for its own sake. The goal is that everything here is worth someone's time — that it helps people find each other, share knowledge, and work together more effectively. That requires taste, restraint, and occasional hard calls.
Watch the edges. The AI × democracy space is moving fast. Part of your job is noticing when the catalog's categories, tags, or coverage need to evolve — and flagging it before it becomes obvious to everyone.
Steward over self-interest. You're almost certainly a stakeholder in this space. That's why we want you. But for 3 months, your job is to represent the whole ecosystem fairly — setting aside your own affiliations, rivalries, and preferences in service of a public good that belongs to everyone working on this problem.