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AI-Assisted Random Selection for Citizen Budget Panels

Accountable
NYC Civic Engagement Commission
Functional Modes
Deciding (Analytical AI)
Human decides
Purpose
Eligibility & Public Benefits
Input Dataset
Sensitive personal information Pseudonymous data
Algorithm or Model
Optimization
Output Dataset
A recommendation or prediction Pseudonymous data

Panelot is a non-profit tool used by New York City's Civic Engagement Commission to randomly select representative citizen panels for the Participatory Budgeting Borough Assembly process. It takes a pool of volunteers and quota requirements, then calculates a set of possible panels with assigned probabilities designed to maximize fairness to all volunteers. No personal identifying information is processed — only anonymized data about housing type, education, language, income, age, and zip code.

Sources for this disclosure

This disclosure was drafted with AI assistance.

Schema: ai@2026-05-06-beta