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The Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance (AIDG) Lab

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance

What is the role of artificial intelligence and digital technology in transforming public administration and democracy? Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance offer major opportunities, but also serious risks that need close and careful investigation.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies transform policy-making. Governments increasingly adopt artificial intelligence algorithms in high-stakes public domains, ranging from predictive policing to the automation of the welfare state. We expect reliance on algorithmic technologies, and the societal relevance thereof, only to rise, with consequential impacts for citizens and public institutions alike. 

Our mission

Our mission is to contribute to fostering an enhanced academic and public understanding of AI and digital governance issues. This includes public organisations’ need to be demanding and discerning users and consumers of AI and digital technologies, by understanding both the opportunities and the challenges these technologies bring when it comes to citizen-state interactions and citizens’ experience of government as well as their broader implications for the very nature of government and democracy.

Our research

The focus of our research interests is on the interaction between public values and AI and digital technology. We look both at the values that are to be secured in the collective steering of the use of AI and digital technology (core values like democracy, accountability, and transparency) and at the values involved in the social effects that the (public) use of AI produces, think of (in-)equality and inclusion.

Concretely, the AIDG lab researches pressing themes like 

  • the use of AI by government and public bodies, including the far-reaching implications of these developments for citizens, 
  • the impact of digital technologies on processes of collective will-formation and elections, and 
  • the transnational dynamics of the (global) regulation of AI and digital technologies.

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance

Research for thoughtful and critical use of AI and digital technology

The lab is a platform for mutual inspiration, research and outreach on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance. We produce cutting-edge research that aims to shape the conversation around AI and digital technology towards a more balanced and informed debate. We aim to encourage a thoughtful and critical use of the technology, mindful of both its positive and negative effects, social consequences and impact on public values and public institutions.

AIDG research in the spotlight

Activities

Are you interested in our activities? Discover our work.

Meet our team

The team members of the Artificial Intelligence & Digital Governance Lab are dedicated to advancing the academic and public understanding of artificial intelligence and digital governance. Learn more about the researchers or our AIDG lab.

Prof. dr. Madalina Busuioc

Professor of Public Administration, Co-Director AIDG Lab

Prof. dr. Madalina Busuioc, Public Administration and Co-Director of the AIDG Lab

Prof. dr. Ben Crum

Professor of Political Science, , Co-Director AIDG Lab

Prof. dr. Ben Crum, political sciences and co-director of the AIDG lab

Are you interested in how AI and digitalisation are transforming public administration and democracy?

Find us in the lab.

aidglab@vu.nl