Monitoring Hub for Mapping and Surveying Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Societal Engagement in the Nordic Region

The project aims to develop a normative framework for responsible AI governance in public administration grounded in the concept of digital dignity. It seeks to assess how AI systems affect institutional legitimacy, public trust, and discretionary decision-making, and to promote AI designs that align with democratic values, equity, and accountability.

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The project is based on the assumption that AI governance in public administration overly focuses on procedural compliance while neglecting systemic effects on legitimacy, trust, and discretion. Although AI promises efficiency and accuracy, it can undermine accountability, equity, and public values. The project introduces digital dignity as a normative lens to assess AI’s societal embedding and democratic impact, proposing a new governance framework and a Nordic monitoring hub to evaluate AI’s long-term societal effects.

Goals

The project aims to introduce two key innovations: (i) a new normative AI-governance framework based on the concepts of digital dignity and responsiveness to public needs, and (ii) a regionally anchored, long-term monitoring Hub to evaluate and track AI's societal impact in the participating Nordic countries by providing a structured platform for monitoring, critical assessment, and engagement with both experts and the public.

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