Aleks Berditchevskaia
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Insights and engagement lead, Centre for Collective Intelligence
Aleks is the insights and engagement lead at Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence.
Aleks leads the research function at the Centre for Collective Intelligence. She leads the design and delivery of deliberative research for public and private sector partners, including the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the Electoral Commission and the Information Commissioner's Office. Her work combines deliberative polling, citizens' juries, and mixed-methods research to give organisations a clear picture of what the public thinks once it has the ability to learn about and discuss complex issues, from AI and neurotechnology to political finance, net zero and coastal adaptation.
Aleks's work on collective intelligence is widely cited. She was one of the first to develop participatory AI methods, and has applied them with partners including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Met Office. She is the lead author of Nesta's work on participatory AI and AI social readiness, as well as publications such as Localising AI for crisis response and The Future of Minds & Machines, a report on combining human and machine intelligence for problem solving. She co-authored the Collective Intelligence Design Playbook, which has been used to train staff across UNDP's Accelerator Lab network, and in 2019 designed and ran Nesta's crowd forecasting challenge with BBC Future and the Good Judgment Project.
Aleks chairs the advisory group for the UKRI AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Hub, and has advised the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on citizen science and The GovLab on democratic engagement. She holds a PhD in neuroscience from Imperial College London.
