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This paper is a collaboration between Make.org and the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement (MAPLE), two non-partisan civic technology organizations building novel AI deployments to improve democratic capacity. Make.org, a…
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential tools for social work researchers aiming to harness advanced technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI services. This paper demystifies APIs and illustrates how they…
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