Join the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University and the GovLab on November 9 at 5:00 p.m. ET for a conversation on "AI and the Future of Youth Democracy" with Daniella DiPaola, Zamaan Qureshi, and Sneha Revanur as part of the Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI Lecture Series. 

"AI and the Future of Youth Democracy" will delve into the impact of artificial intelligence on the engagement and representation of young people in the United States, and explore how youth can be empowered and equipped to thrive in the age of artificial intelligence.

A panel of leaders exploring the potential of AI and youth will discuss how this generation can and should lead the way in shaping public conversations about AI and democratic engagement.

Daniella DiPaola is a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab, where she studies ethics and children’s rights in the age of artificial intelligence and personal robots. As part of her work, she develops curricula to inform K-12 students about how AI may impact their lives, including how it might be governed. Her learning activities have reached hundreds of students across the world and have been featured in news outlets such as the New York Times and PopSci.

Zamaan Qureshi is an activist and advocate for safer social media for teenagers and young people. He serves as a policy advisor for the Real Facebook Oversight Board; co-chair of the Design It For Us coalition and member of the Council for Responsible Social Media. He's written for publications including TIME and Tech Policy Press and has been featured by outlets including The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, POLITICO and Axios. He is a student at American University pursuing a B.A. international studies and political science.  

Sneha Revanur is a student at Williams College committed to asking critical, big-picture questions about the future of innovation. In July 2020, she founded Encode Justice, an international, youth-powered organization building a movement for human-centered artificial intelligence. As a 2022 Cameron Impact Scholar, one of California’s two delegates to the 2022 U.S. Senate Youth Program, a 2021 Princeton Prize in Race Relations Recipient, and a 2021 Youth to the Front Fund Frontliner, her efforts to reshape her generation's collective AI future have been extensively recognized. She has had the honor of presenting to audiences at the U.S. Department of Education, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Museum of Science, NASA Ames, and the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Outside of Encode Justice, Sneha loves to read investigative journalism, learn languages, visit art museums, and travel.

The Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI Lecture Series provides an opportunity to talk with innovative designers, thinkers, and changemakers from around the world working to “do democracy” differently.  We will explore how machine learning, natural language processing, generative AI, can enable more participatory and inclusive ways of solving problems and strengthen our ability to collaborate in governing ourselves. Through online and in-person conversations with pioneers working to democratize power in governments, schools and workplaces, these conversations aim to address how to use new technologies to strengthen democracy.