RAISE Pop-up Hack Day
A hands-on program for AI projects in the public interest. Explore the first event below and join our community channels for the next date.
Hosted by the AI Clinic, sponsored by RAISE and affiliated partners. The hack day focuses on civic tech and .gov projects: rapidly prototyping AI systems for government, experimenting with new modeling approaches, and creating baselines for collaborative work with the City of Seattle and public-sector partners.
RAISE is the University of Washington's hub for responsible AI research, education, and public-sector innovation — partnering with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to design, evaluate, and deploy AI systems that improve public services while upholding standards of transparency, safety, and equity.
Customer Service Assistant
Design and test an AI assistant that answers resident questions about City services with multilingual, plain-language responses — prompt design, retrieval augmentation, and evaluation against curated resident questions.
Project brief ↗Policy Conflict Engine
Prototype search, retrieval, and model-based comparison workflows that surface conflicts, redundancies, and outdated requirements across Seattle's regulatory sources — WAC, SMC, Director's Rules, and Executive Orders.
Project brief ↗Streamlining Inference of Cause of Death
Use LLMs to predict cause of death from verbal autopsy interviews, then approximate expert "decode panels" with coordinated LLM agents — establishing baselines for expert diagnostic reasoning in regions without complete medical records.
Project brief ↗Information Extraction from Healthcare-Bill Collections
Design prompts and few-shot strategies to extract key fields from messy legal PDFs in civil suits over unpaid medical bills — principal amount, judgment amount, defendant, and provider — evaluated against gold-standard answers.
Project brief ↗Don't miss the next one
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