About

 
 

Biography:

Jamie Joyce is an executive and ontologist known for her work designing AI applications for civic tech (including AI agents), digital archiving, deliberation mapping, and collective intelligence technology; with a passion for data accessibility in the government sector. She has overseen projects in over 20 countries from her past work in international sustainable development.

Her advocacy centers around digitizing aspects of democratic government functioning, particularly in scaling and automating aspects of the U.S. legislative branch; namely intelligence gathering, constituent representation, scientific/industry field mapping, and policy deliberation. She also advocates for truth-seeking AI and is working on a suite of agentic research and analysis tools which automate techniques she has compiled to execute an end-to-end research and analysis pipeline which transforms multimodal artifacts into grounded, logically coherent and fact-checked databases to support policy-making.

Resume:

The Internet Archive (2022-2023)

  • Democracy’s Library Department (2022-2023):

    • Helped form and launch a new department at the Internet Archive focused on archiving and organizing government documents, datasets, research, records, and publications.

    • Intersected with high-ranking professionals both at U.S. government agencies and in the GLAM sector to analyze the disjointed infrastructure of government document management across the U.S. to discover 70+ data access pain points at the artifact, platform, and systems levels across municipal, state, and federal axes, which will be used to inform a plan to mass-collect government data, documents, records, research, etc.

    • Hired to work directly for the Founder to execute the plan developed: which entails overseeing an international scale, multimedia data collection effort, including advising on strategic acquisitions, fundraising, stewarding relationships, and advising a collection team.

    • Other roles: member of executive AI working group, annual event committee, and fundraising team

The Society Library (2018-Present)

  • Executive Director and Founder:

    • Oversees and directs the design, technical development, AI automation, fine-tuning data creation, and product testing of all Society Library offerings; including building library collections with autonomous search agents, modeling civilization-scale deliberations, design of data visualizations, and developing various research services (writing legislation) and products (building decision-making models).

    • Worked with OpenAI’s internal policy teams to develop graphs which visualized policy options and subsequent reasoning to justify governance of ChatGPT. Negotiated directly with OpenAI general counsel to change terms and conditions of a grants program to protect Society Library IP.

    • Oversees and directs educational programming, including: the development of 8 distinct educational tracks offered nationwide (via 32 Universities), a robust suit of training programs for volunteers, and the development of an international educational track for fact-checkers via a grant from the IFCN and Facebook.

    • Developed a suite of complimentary, revenue-generating knowledge products and services supporting the sustainability of the organization.

    • Develops the marketing and promotional materials for our programs and various services, including the production of informative video shorts and long-form article publications.

    • Responsible for business development, including prospecting and cultivating partnerships towards funding, tools, and data acquisitions; including acquiring SOTA argument mining technology, DoD licensed dashboards for social media monitoring, and global news monitoring systems - all pro bono.

    • Developed and published knowledge policies institutionalizing The Society Library's commitments to responsible knowledge stewardship and worked with legal counsel to ensure compliance while orienting towards open access to knowledge.

    • Cultivated and formalized an Advisory Board of renowned industry leaders in the fields of cyber security, misinformation, arg-tech, A.I., and other relevant fields.

  • Ontological Engineer

    • Developed a descriptive method for deriving a hierarchical dialectical structure from 12 forms of deconstructed data in order to suggest an ontology for our libraries.

Foresight Institute (2022) Collective Intelligence Fellow

  • Advanced work building collective intelligence technologies.

IDEASForUs.org (2016-2019)

  • Advisory Board Member: United Nations accredited international Sustainable Development NGO (2018-2019)

  • Chief Operating Officer: (2017-2018)

    • Working under the direction of our ED, I supported program directors in developing strategic plans, throwing community events, fundraising, developing marketing materials and social media content, as well as overseeing the NGO's general operations (including accounting and reporting).

  • Fund Chairperson (2016-2018)

    • Oversaw over 30 SDG projects in 20 developing countries. I worked directly with local leaders and helped them develop, fund, and measure the impact of their projects.

    • Worked with the United Nations to successfully achieve gender parity in our application process.

    • Developed an impact-metrics tracking and reporting system that was picked up by one of the nation's largest micro-granting philanthropies.

  • Campaign Strategist (2016-2017)

    • Supported teams in sub-saharan Africa building micro vermi-composting structures to localize food production in a closed-loop system.

Community Roles

  • Board Member (2020 - 2023) Advisory Board Member (2023-Present) - Wikitongues.org (Preserving and revitalizing the world's 7,000 languages and defending languages from political oppression)

  • Board Member (2023-present) Sand Mandala Foundation (Art Grants Foundation)

  • Board Secretary (2016-2017) - Familab.org (Hackerspace and makerspace)

  • Co-Founder (2016-present) Canonical Debate Labs (Technical community)

Artistic Career

Jamie Joyce is an award-winning artist who specializes in a rare form of art using multi-million electron volt beams in a particle accelerator to produce Lichtenberg figure works of art. See more here.

  • Burning Man Honorarium Artist (2024, 2016, 2014, 2013)

  • Burning Man Global Leadership Artist (2017)

  • Afterburn Honorarium (2013)

  • Unifying Theme Scholar (2013)

  • UCF Environmental Arts Scholarship (2013)

  • OMA Featured Artist (2011)

  • Unifying Theme Scholar (2011)

 

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Podcast Appearances:

Unrecorded Panelist at: "Ethics of Language and Cultural Documentation in the Digital Age," "The State of Sensemaking on the Web," and "Epistemics of COVID-19 and Bias in Sense-Making."

Professional Associations: The Linux Foundation, Society of American Archivists, American Library Association, Office of Intellectual Freedom, Nation of Makers, Freedom to Read Foundation