Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI with Ed Bice of Meedan

Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI with Ed Bice of Meedan

Thursday, March 20, 5 p.m. ET

Ed Bice is the CEO and Board Chair of the global technology non-profit Meedan. Since founding Meedan in 2006 he has devoted his professional energies to improving equity, accessibility, and credibility in online environments. Ed has led strategy and project definition on open source software development focused on human-in-the-loop approaches to translating, verifying, investigating and fact-checking digital content.

Ed was a recipient of the 2024 Skoll Award for Social Innovation. He is a member of the PAI (Partnership on AI) AI and Media Steering Committee.

Meedan’s work has received numerous awards including two Knight News Challenge Awards, two Online News Association Awards and two International Fact-Checking Networks’ Collaborative Impact awards. Meedan’s technical work on a platform that enables journalists to leverage AI to better respond to questions on closed messaging platforms received a National Science Foundation Convergence grant (2022-24).