What is Civic Interplay?
A think and do space exploring what it means to become-citizen in an era of so-called sovereign AI. It brings together ideas, tools and gatherings that look to a future where civic AI governance is not only imaginable, but real. Everything here is a draft, and an invitation. More about Civic Interplay
Key projects
Data Centres Transparency Project
A live map of the data centre super cycle shaping Australia's digital future. Energy, water and land, site by site. Contribute, explore, dispute.
WeCare
A participatory digital storytelling project for RMIT's City North Social Innovation Precinct.
Civic Interplay Toolkit
Workflows, prompt instructions and transcripts, public on GitHub. Designed to be forked, adapted, broken and rebuilt.
Familiar Terrain
A walkable semantic terrain. Texts, noticings and ideas cluster into regions based on the patterns embeddings find in them. Built by Irina Panovich.
Partner or collaborate
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Host a training ground
Bring a workshop to your group, council, class or precinct. We run the methods with you, in the room, on a question that matters where you are.
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Partner on a place
Co-create a storytelling or data project with the people who look after a place, the way WeCare opened up a precinct to many voices.
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Contribute to the tracker
Add a site, correct a record, or share what is happening near you. The map gets better the more people dispute it.
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Research together
Co-author, share data, supervise or join as a student. The methods are citable and the tools are open, so there is plenty to build on.
See the tools
Get in touch Tell us about your place, group or question.
Latest writing
Anthropic Civitas
Fighting the US Government through AI civics: Allowing space for Dario Amodei to define AI civics
Cosmic Jack Clark
Paying attention to what is being said, as the models are being trained, and the governance apparatus is laid out.
What time are we living in?
The agentic era may be getting very weird. Oh wait it already was. Reflections during the week of Pope Leo's Encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas.