Shaping AI
to better serve people & society

For a fair, inclusive and sustainable future, we must ensure that Artificial Intelligence is developed and deployed to best serve the needs of people and society.  

Too often AI is shaped by the interests of governments and the tech industry without adequate concern for the individuals and communities it affects. This can lead to technologies that entrench inequality, exacerbate social injustice and undermine people’s rights.

That’s why the European AI & Society Fund empowers a diverse ecosystem of civil society organisations to shape policies around AI in the public interest and galvanises the philanthropic sector to sustain this vital work.

Who we fund

We support organisations from across Europe that want to shape Artificial Intelligence to better serve people and society. Some of our grantees have previous expertise working on AI, digital rights and technology. Others represent particular communities or fight different kinds of social injustice and want to address how AI is affecting their work.

Our partners

The European AI & Society Fund is supported by a group of philanthropic foundations that share our mission to shape AI in the public interest.

Experts

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

Interview with Sam Jeffers from Who Targets Me: is generative AI changing election campaigns online? 

The European AI & Society Fund spoke with Sam Jeffers from Who Targets Me about how generative AI is changing online political advertising and campaigns

Interview with Nani Jansen Reventlow, the Founder of Systemic Justice: Making litigation accessible as a tool for change.

We caught up with Nani Jansen Reventlow from Systemic Justice about what it means to support community-driven litigation and what Systemic Justice has learned about how communities experience technology-enabled harms.

Interview with Sam Jeffers from Who Targets Me: is generative AI changing election campaigns online? 

The European AI & Society Fund spoke with Sam Jeffers from Who Targets Me about how generative AI is changing online political advertising and campaigns

Publications

European AI & Society Fund Annual Report 2023

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