<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/ai-and-democracy.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>05/22/2025</pubDate><title>Professor Contributes to International Collaboration Examining AI and Democracy</title><description>Associate history professor April Yoder, Ph.D., shares her journey from cultural research to taking a leadership role in the development of global AI policy, highlighting how applied learning and an international collaboration are guiding the future of technology and democracy.</description><hide-description/><author>April Yoder, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>May 22, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/hero/data-science.jpg" alt="The intersection of AI and Democracy were examined by April Yoder, Associate Profess of History and the Editor-in-Chief of the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)"/></image><image-caption>The intersection of AI and Democracy were examined by April Yoder, Associate Profess of History and the Editor-in-Chief of the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-arts-sciences</tag><tag>dept-human-sciences</tag><tag>name-april-yoder</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-ug-history</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>