Our mission is to ensure that everyone can access the conversation on how AI is being implemented in society.
Fellows speak for themselves and have absolute independence over their work, and don’t speak on behalf of one another. What unites us is our shared mission.
We are a think-tank and non-profit NGO. We work as a collective of specialists.
Website map:
- Governance and Civil Advocacy Tools.
- Fellow’s specialties, biographies, social links.
- Some of our collected Works & News.
- Ways to Get Involved.
- Information on our Research and Services.
- And ways to Contact Us.
Recent News, Media, and Events:
Governance and Civil Advocacy Tools
The Aula Convening Guidelines, 2025 ed.
For people working on tech governance and AI in society:
Convene communities for legitimate collective decision-making on how AI is implemented in society.
Get Involved: 5 Convenings in Development
AI Sustainability Council, African Access to Global Tech Policy, Convening on Military AI, AI House Davos 2027, and the AI Comedy Council and Road Show.
We’ve the Global Trust Challenge as a Global Outreach Partner
A policy accelerator for people working on policy towards trustworthy AI and digital infrastructure.
In partnership with the IEEE, OECD, UNESCO, GPAI and other organizations.
Post-Davos Report and Announcement on Aula Convenings
We’re pleased to share the release of our AI House Davos 2026 Debrief: The Aula Fellowship Is Convening Global Conversations on AI.
Levers of Power in the Field of AI
Ongoing research and collective work on how individuals in institutions and in civil society can work together to steer our social systems.
The Aula Early Assessment Instrument for AI Implementations in SMEs (AulaEAI v.01)
This instrument is a light-weight AI Implementation assessment for a proposed AI implementation in a small or medium organization: company / institutional / or non-profit.
Works & News
Recent Research and Reports:
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Artificial Intelligence and the Algorithmic Discursive Sphere: Policymaking Dilemmas and the Rise of a New Public Intellectual
This paper explores the multifaceted relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), programming languages, and ethical-political structures, emphasizing how AI development both reflects and reshapes global power dynamics. When prompted about its participation in political discourse or its potential to function as a public intellectual (a hybrid human–nonhuman actor that redefines the link between technology, politics, and…
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Mission Statement: Natalia Tomashpolskaia, Ph.D.
I share Aula’s mission of promoting an interdisciplinary approach to AI technologies. AI is a generalized tool that increasingly impacts a wide range of sectors, and I firmly believe that specialists from different fields and areas of knowledge must collaborate to ensure that these technologies are developed and implemented in a responsible, ethical, and inclusive…
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Have We Found The Way To Make Big Tech Pay?
Reporting on the new wave of litigation sweeping through the US (and beyond) aimed not just at the content published by Big Tech’s platforms but the very design choices made to keep users hooked. The article covers a webinar organized by Renee black at Goodbot. The legal strategies used in these lawsuits are actually working,…
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Reflection on LLM Use
From 2023 to 2025, I ran a small business centered on providing hand illustrated designer stationary in India. This involved designing notebook covers, wedding and other invitations, gift cards, reusable planners, etc.. In the beginning, the work was fun and we started getting a decent number of customers, but it changed pretty quickly when in…
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Highlighting “Framing Gaza”, a project by Anmat media, an organization founded by Fellow Hager Hesham
Anmat’s Framing Gaza highlights that AI can serve as a tool for accountability; auditing how power shapes narrative including language used to report conflicts and major events in the Global South and the impact on how the world responds to it. Aula’s mission is to ensure that everyone can access the conversation on how AI…
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Mission Statement: Jeremiah Haruna
I joined the Aula Fellowship because I believe AI governance must be shaped through inclusive, informed, and globally representative conversations. My work sits at the intersection of law, AI governance, privacy, and public policy, where I help organizations implement responsible AI and data governance frameworks. As a lawyer from the Global South working across Africa…
A broad selection of our collected works are presented on our Works & News page.
Research
Research programs in engineering education, institutionalism, management, politics, governance, tech, and international cooperation. Open to researchers from all disciplines and skillsets. All types of research are conducted by our Fellows and the Fellowship. We work together on trade, journalistic, legal, policy, academic, etc.
Fellows share opportunities for professional development and collaborate to ensure that our communities as specialists and as people can connect to each other, and make decisions together about AI in society.
Please get in touch if you want to collaborate on a specific project with several Fellows. Otherwise, reach out to specific Fellows.
Services
Fellows work with individuals, communities, and institutions who are trying to make sense of what AI means for their work, their people, their missions, and their futures. We’re not here to simplify AI or sell you a solution. We create space for the conversations, and we do it for our Mission.
- Presentation and events, conference curation.
- Community and governance support.
- Mediation and arbitrage, including negotiations and forensics (select topics).
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Fellows are independent of the Fellowship, and we don’t all do the same work. The Fellowship only accepts mandates that are in line with our Mission and the public good. If you want to hire a Fellow for other work related to their specialties, you are welcome do so directly by looking them up in Fellows and reaching out to them by email or LinkedIn.
