Democracy x AI Cohort
Opening DateOngoing
Deadline DateNot defined
Submission LanguageEnglish
Maximum Value1.000.000,00 $
Percentage of FinancingNA
StatusOpen
StatusOpen
Who
Open to global changemakers developing AI projects that strengthen democracy. Applicants can submit early ideas, prototypes, or deployed tools that demonstrate positive applications of AI for democratic practices. Teams or individuals should demonstrate the capacity to develop AI solutions that enhance civic engagement, transparency, accountability, or digital rights. Only complete applications submitted when the call opens in 2026 will be considered.
Eligibility
Cohort-based funding and support for AI projects that transition from prototype to sustainable impact.
Includes access to mentorship, community resources, and connections to stakeholders.
They are seeking many kinds of projects that use AI to strengthen democracy, including:
- Information fidelity
- Diversifying information flows and increasing the sharing of fact-based information
- Exploring LLMs for fact-checking and politically neutral content moderation
- Identity verification to prevent bots and fake accounts
- Facilitating consensus-building amongst polarized citizens
- Institutional trust-building
- Increasing transparency government decision-making
- Integrating public input into governance
- Developing accountability mechanisms for public officials
- Building platforms that enable collective action and civic participation
- Civic activation
- Protecting freedom of expression and association in digital spaces
- Creating technologies that empower citizens to resist propaganda and polarization
- Expanding access to civic education and resources
- Defending the digital public sphere from authoritarian misuse
What
Democracy stands at a crossroads. Around the globe, citizens are losing faith in institutions while media polarization fractures our shared understanding of truth. Political systems buckle under the pressure of viral slop, algorithmic amplification, and AI-driven propaganda.
But the same AI technologies being weaponized to undermine democratic discourse can be reimagined as tools for democratic renewal. AI can enhance civic engagement, increase institutional transparency, and restore trust in collective decision-making. It can detect disinformation, enable participatory governance, and protect digital rights. The choice is ours: AI can either be democracy's greatest threat or its most powerful ally.
The technologies to protect democracy are already emerging. Researchers are detecting AI propaganda efforts. Developers are building transparent governance platforms. Activists are defending digital rights. These working prototypes prove AI can serve democracy—but they're stuck in the critical gap between breakthrough ideas and lasting impact. This is a pivotal moment. Democracy can't wait.
That's why they are launching the Democracy x AI Cohort.
Funding
Total cohort funding: 1.000.000,00 $ globally.
Documents
Organisation: Mozilla
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