The Progressive AI Lab runs recurring programs that meet practitioners where they are, from first-time users to experienced builders. Every program is designed to turn interest in AI into working capability across the progressive movement.
Monthly virtual convenings where practitioners bring real, specific needs: voter targeting, message testing, agentic workflow automation, campaign data security, and AI applications for democracy and human rights.
Entry-level, hands-on sessions for practitioners who have never written a line of code. Participants build working tools in two hours, with no technical experience needed.
Sign upSmall-group convenings focused on specific projects and challenges, designed to create the kind of focused, cross-pollinating conversation that does not happen in larger formats.
Higher Ground Institute staff speak at convenings across the progressive tech and organizing ecosystem, bringing AI literacy and strategic framing to practitioner audiences wherever they gather.
The Lab funds programming and publishes research on how the progressive movement can adopt AI responsibly. Several materials from the program remain available on the Higher Ground Labs site.
The year-one review of the Lab's funding, training and programming, and research and insights for the Democratic and progressive ecosystem.
Read the reportThe organizations and founders supported through the Lab's incubation grant program to develop promising, underexplored applications of generative AI.
See the recipientsOngoing findings, projects, and strategic insights into the applications of AI in politics, updated as the work continues.
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