Join Beth Simone Noveck as she discusses her latest book, “Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy,” with Arvind Narayanan, director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology and Policy and the Bertram and Carole Siegel Professor of Computer Science.

At this delicate moment, artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene — a powerful technology that holds as much potential to bolster democracy as to harm it. Yet we no longer treat democracy as a design challenge we can solve. We have built extraordinary tools without yet using them where they are needed most: to forge institutions that listen more closely, decide more wisely and act more effectively. Will AI tighten the grip of power — or help rebuild public institutions that work for people? “Reboot” offers a bold and practical playbook for tipping the balance in favor of democracy. For technologists, public servants, researchers and civic leaders, “Reboot” offers a practical framework for governing AI — and for governing with it.

A professor at Northeastern University with appointments in law, engineering, policy, communications and computer science, Simone Noveck directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and the Governance Lab. She focuses on “Democratic AI,” or how to use AI to strengthen democratic institutions. She previously served in the White House, 10 Downing Street, the German Chancellery and as founding chief AI strategist and chief innovation officer for the State of New Jersey. Noveck founded the White House Open Government Initiative. 

Today, she leads InnovateUS, which supports free public sector learning, and its research initiative, the Observatory of Public Sector AI, the largest collection of data on the public sector and its use of AI. She created AI for Impact, which designs and deploys open source AI tools to improve public outcomes, and Solving Public Problems to train the next generation of leaders and problem solvers. In 2026, she joined the Australian Resilient Democracy Network as a Global Fellow and the Harvard Kennedy School as a Policy Fellow. 

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