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Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

@DAIRInstitute

2 years

We are @DAIRInstitute — an independent, community-rooted #AI research institute free from #BigTech 's pervasive influence. Founded by @timnitGebru .

DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

www.dair-institute.org

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@DAIRInstitute

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Join us for our #NoTechForApartheid event in with @haymarketbooks to amplify the #NoTechForApartheid campaign & learn what we can do as tech workers. We don't have the registration page yet but you can add your email here to get info: Details in thread 👇

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@DAIRInstitute

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We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Alex Hanna as our incoming director of research. A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality. 1/4

Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا)

@alexhanna

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Today's my last day at Google. Starting tomorrow I'm joining @timnitGebru at @DAIRInstitute as Director of Research. On my way out, here's some thoughts on the tech company as a racialized organization and the power of complaint.

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Twitter's machine learning ethics & transparency (META) team led by our friend @ruchowdh , has been laid off along with countless other workers. What's happening there should be a wakeup call on the consequences of leaving our technological future to the whims of billionaires.

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Join us in demanding a #CeasefireNOW and #NoTechForApartheid . Our full statement here:

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In this Op-ed, @timnitGebru & @mmitchell_ai note that "Scientists & engineers should focus on building models that meet people’s needs for different tasks, & that can be evaluated on that basis, rather than claiming they’re creating über consciousness."

Opinion | We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening.

The hype is distracting from the real pitfalls of bots that mimic humans, risks that many companies would rather ignore.

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@DAIRInstitute

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As we celebrate our launch day, we want to extend deep gratitude to our Advisory Committee Members @safiyanoble and @CwaMaina who have helped us get here, and our first research fellow Raesetja Sefala

About

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

www.dair-institute.org

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@DAIRInstitute

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Congratulations to Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Sanmi Koyejo for winning a best paper award at NeurIPS for this insightful paper. Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities...

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@DAIRInstitute

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"AI has launched a new era in unpaid labor, one in which everyone participates in building the foundations for new companies and technologies while remaining completely oblivious to their contributions." @adrienneandgp and @MilagrosMiceli

Data Work and its Layers of (In)visibility

No technology has seemingly steam-rolled through every industry and over every community the way artificial intelligence (AI) has in the past decade. Many speak of the inevitable crisis that AI...

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@DAIRInstitute

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For our 1 year anniversary virtual events, we'll have talks, panels and breakout discussions with attendees. Sign up here: Why should we always clean up after harmful tech rather than implementing our imagination of a technological future that serves us?

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@DAIRInstitute

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We are hiring a senior community-based researcher. Full job ad and application here:

Code for Science & Society | Senior Community-Based Researcher -…

Advancing the power of data to improve the social and economic lives of all people.

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@DAIRInstitute

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Today we welcome @MilagrosMiceli as a research fellow. Milagros's research focusses on labor conditions and power asymmetries in outsourced data work as well as their effects on machine learning datasets. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and workshops...

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@DAIRInstitute

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Join us on March 17th for Stochastic Parrots Day marking the 2nd anniversary of the paper. The authors will be joined by scientists, teachers, artists, legal scholars & data workers to discuss the large language model landscape. Sign up here:

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@DAIRInstitute

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Join us virtually on December 2nd and 3rd as we celebrate our 1st anniversary. We'll have interactive talks and conversations with DAIR's team members located across North America, Europe & Africa. 1/4

DAIR 's 1 Year Anniversary Celebration

DAIR 1-year Anniversary Event

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That's a wrap. Thank you for celebrating with us. Stay tuned for our research philosophy which will be released in English, Spanish, Arabic, Tigrinya and Amharic along with our revamped website.

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Congratulations to our director of research Dr. @alexhanna for being listed in Go Magazine's 100 Women We Love. 🎉🎉🎉 We agree!

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@DAIRInstitute

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Congratulations to Dr. @jovialjoy , founder of @AJLUnited , for receiving the well deserved Technological Innovation Award from the King Center.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center

@TheKingCenter

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Congratulations, @jovialjoy ! @AJLUnited #BelovedCommunityAwards #MLKDay #TheKingCenter

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"When the contract with OpenAI was terminated eight months early, “we felt that we were left without an income, while dealing on the other hand with serious trauma”, said petitioner Richard Mathenge..."

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

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@DAIRInstitute

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Our Founder, @timnitGebru , will be speaking at the Women in AI Ethics Summit today! Tune in 8am-12pm PST! #AIChangemakers

Women in AI Ethics™

@WomeninAIEthics

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Get excited! The 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Annual Summit 2021 is happening tomorrow 8am–12pm PST! 🤩 #AIChangemakers @IfeomaOzoma @jennifer_e_lee @cori_crider @MiaD

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We are looking for a full time summer intern to contribute to our goal of communicating our research to the public through creative means. Take a look at our job position and apply here:

Code for Science & Society | Jobs

Advancing the power of data to improve the social and economic lives of all people.

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This 2021 preprint by @Abebab @vinayprabhu @MannyKayy had discussed a number of issues with the dataset.

Samantha Cole

@samleecole

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big breaking news: LAION just removed its datasets, following a study from Stanford that found thousands of instances of suspected child sexual abuse material

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PRESS RELEASE 📢🧵 @turkopticon & DAIR applaud the Congressional announcement of a letter by Sen. Markey...& Rep. Jayapal...which demands that Amazon, Google, OpenAI, & other tech giants answer questions about the working conditions of data workers,

PRESS RELEASE: Turkopticon and The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Applaud Congressional...

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

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@DAIRInstitute

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“Data is the last frontier of colonization,” Mahelona says. "In turning to AI to help revive te reo, the Māori language, Mahelona and Jones, who is Māori, wanted to do things differently."

A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people

ln a remote rural town in New Zealand, an Indigenous couple is challenging what AI could be and who it should serve.

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@DAIRInstitute

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Please join us in welcoming Asmelash Teka as a part-time DAIR fellow. Asmelash is the Co-founder and CTO of Lesan ( @lesan_ai ). At Lesan, he has built state-of-the-art machine translation systems to and from Amharic, Tigrinya and English. 🎉🎉🎉

Asmelash Teka

@asmelashteka

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✨Exciting news ✨🎉 🚀 I'm thrilled to let you know that Lesan is partnering with DAIR to study and develop open source Natural Language Processing tools for Ge’ez based languages in social media settings. @DAIRInstitute @lesan_ai #NLProc #SocialMedia #Tigrinya #Amharic

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"...a number of AI experts, including @alexhanna , noted that despite the widespread proliferation of ethical frameworks & principles for AI, virtually none of them take into account the extensive human labour that underpins the technology."

US lawmakers write to AI firms about ‘gruelling’ work conditions | ...

Lawmakers have written to nine tech companies – including Amazon, Google and Microsoft – about the working conditions of those they employ to train and maintain their artificial intelligence system...

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@DAIRInstitute

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Congratulations to the workers who successfully unionized 🎉 ""For too long we, the workers powering the AI revolution, were treated as different & less than...” said Richard Mathenge" If you missed Richard's panel on #StochasticParrotsDay , watch here:

Stochastic Parrots Day: On Worker Exploitation, Data Theft, and the Centralization of Power

For Stochastic Parrots Day 2023, an anonymous data worker from Kenya shares his experience in the labor of training AI language models, and Milagros Miceli and Safiya Noble share their research abo...

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Billy Perrigo

@billyperrigo

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Can't quite believe I'm writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi. These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets:

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We are excited to welcome Meron Estefanos ( @meronina , ) to DAIR as a research fellow. She is an activist and radio journalist who has been fighting for the rights of kidnapped refugees, and negotiating their release for 17 years.

Meron Estefanos – Wikipedia

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Join us on Dec 2nd & 3rd for research highlights & panels at our 1 year anniversary event. Day1 research highlights: *Language tech for Ge'ez based languages | @asmelashteka *Refugee advocacy & Bitcoin | @meronina *Nobody owns our tech future | @dylan

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Please join us in welcoming our newest fellow, Adrienne Williams ( @adrienneandgp )🎉🎉🎉 Adrienne started organizing in 2018 while working as a junior high teacher for a tech owned and operated charter school. 1/4

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@DAIRInstitute

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Image descriptions of 4 screenshots in the quote tweet of @alexhanna 's talk from #WiDS2022 today. 1. “To begin to see how biases are propagated and reinforced via machine learning system training data, we need histories of the datasets themselves…”

Somalee Datta

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A very thought provoking talk by Alex Hanna @alexhanna from @DAIRInstitute . My #gratitude

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Our director of research @alexhanna at yesterday's @NoTechApartheid rally. 👉Join the movement: 👉Read our #CeasefireNOW statement Watch our #NoTechForApartheid event with @haymarketbooks

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"The EU AI Act will only entrench police and migration authorities’ existing culture of impunity – encouraging them to keep deploying harmful AI systems against the most marginalised communities."

Daniel Leufer

@djleufer

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#AIAct Despite the big pronouncements about the EU overcoming lobbying efforts to pass 'the world's 1st comprehensive' rules for AI, the AI Act is a failure from a human rights perspective & a victory for industry & police Read @accessnow 's take here:

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@DAIRInstitute

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We have now setup the registration page for our event where you can directly register below. While the event is free, you have an option to donate with proceeds going to @pal_legal @MedicalAidPal & @RespondCrisis

Register now – #NoTechForApartheid – YouTube, Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Isr...

www.tickettailor.com

Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

@DAIRInstitute

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Join us for our #NoTechForApartheid event in with @haymarketbooks to amplify the #NoTechForApartheid campaign & learn what we can do as tech workers. We don't have the registration page yet but you can add your email here to get info: Details in thread 👇

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"Coming from the community she studied, Sefala said, was crucial to the project’s success." Our fellow, @bonjora , emphasizes the importance of valuing people's lived experiences.

Timnit Gebru is part of a wave of Black women working to change AI

Gebru said she was pushed out of her job at Google after pointing out how AI has been harmful to people of color. Now she's launching her own research institute.

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@DAIRInstitute

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"We've shown that you can build useful models by using small, carefully curated data sets," said Asemalsh..."We understand its limitations & capabilities. Meanwhile, Microsoft or Google usually build a single, gigantic model for all languages, so it's almost impossible to audit."

Asmelash Teka

@asmelashteka

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I had a great conversation with @daten_drang from @DeutscheWelle . Thank you Kira for your insightful article. Check it out: Bridging the AI language gap in Africa and beyond @lesan_ai @DAIRInstitute @GhanaNLP

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"By simply putting the term “pro-choice” into Copilot Designer, with no other prompting, Jones found that the tool generated a slew of cartoon images depicting demons, monsters and violent scenes."

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4. Ariel Koren who was pushed out of Google for tireless advocacy on the @DropNimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns. See the campaign page here.

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Our fellow, Raesetje Sefala ( @bonjora ) will talk about her work at @Blackathonic on February 5 at 1pm EST. You can get your tickets at … to attend the event.

Blackathon 2022

Blackathon brings leaders in technology together from across the African diaspora to create emancipatory technologies.

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"In the end, the real problem is arguably not that the data labelers shared the images on social media. Rather, it’s that this type of AI training set—specifically, one depicting faces—is far more common than most people understand, notes @MilagrosMiceli ,

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.

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@DAIRInstitute

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Congratulations to our director of research @alexhanna 🎉🎉🎉 "On Valentine’s Day 2011, graduate student Alex Hanna helped to lead a crowd into the office of Governor Scott Walker and dump 3,000 “We ♥ UW” valentines on his desk."

UW-Madison L&S

@UWMadisonLS

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Our friends at @WisAlumni have announced their 2023 Alumni Awards, and the list includes several @UWMadisonLS folks. Including @UWSoc 's @alexhanna , winner of a Forward award: #WeAreLS

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Join us tomorrow for our virtual #NoTechForApartheid event with @haymarketbooks to hear from an amazing line up of speakers, and register here if you haven't done so already. If you donate, proceeds go to @pal_legal @MedicalAidPal & @RespondCrisis

Register now – #NoTechForApartheid – YouTube, Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Isr...

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@DAIRInstitute

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Join us for the 20th episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater Monday Nov. 6 at 10:30am Pacific where @alexhanna and @emilymbender travel back in time & examine the AI Hype in the grant proposal that funded the 1956 summer project at Dartmouth that started it all

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Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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DAIR at @CSVConference with @alexhanna @dylnbkr @adrienneandgp @bonjora @MilagrosMiceli

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Did you miss #StochasticParrotsDay ? You can now find the recordings here.

Stochastic Parrots Day 2023

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“Don’t be fooled: it’s self-serving hype disguised as raising the alarm,” @dylnbkr ...research engineer @DAIRInstitute ...current discussions regarding hypothetical existential risks distract the public and regulators from “the concrete harms of AI today.”

Big Tech's latest AI doomsday warning might be more of the same hype

On Tuesday, a group including some of AI's leading minds proclaimed that we are facing an 'extinction crisis.'

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@DAIRInstitute

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Here's the agenda of the event with @mcmillan_majora @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mark_riedl @safiyanoble @Nanjala1 @StevenZapata @SarahSAAndrew Belzie Mont-Louis and an anonymous data worker.

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And that's a wrap. Thank you to all of our attendees, speakers, moderators, producers and moderators.

Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

@DAIRInstitute

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Join us on March 17th for Stochastic Parrots Day marking the 2nd anniversary of the paper. The authors will be joined by scientists, teachers, artists, legal scholars & data workers to discuss the large language model landscape. Sign up here:

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Mystery AI Hype Theater by @emilymbender and @alexhanna is now available in podcast form. Thank you to producer @ctaylsaurus Take a listen as Alex and Emily dissect #AIHype vs reality.

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation....

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We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings who have lived under brutal Israeli occupation & apartheid for 75 years, and now face a genocide with access to food, water, and fuel shutoff while being bombed and burned with white phosphorus. 1/17

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Join us for another edition of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 on Monday April 1st at noon pacific time, where @timnitGebru will guest host with @alexhanna . In the mean time, you can catch up on old episodes

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Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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Are you catching up with the story of the lawyer who used ChatGPT? Watch this Mystery AI Hype 3000 Theater episode hosted by @emilymbender & @alexhanna where special guest @KendraSerra warned about this type of issue with generative AI Hype and law.

Mystery AI Hype Theater, Episode 10 - Don't Be A Lawyer, ChatGPT

Alex and Emily are joined by law and technology scholar Kendra Albert for a conversation about ChatGPT, legal expertise, and how we do and don't measure someone's ability to practice law. Listen to...

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Congratulations to our very own @adrienneandgp and for becoming Just Tech fellow. "Adrienne Williams is a labor organizer & researcher with Distributed AI Research Institute."

Introducing the 2023–2025 Just Tech Fellows

Introducing the 2023–2025 Just Tech Fellows The Just Tech program, a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) project, announced its second cohort of Just Tech Fellows today. These seven visionaries—...

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" @alexhanna sees...financial incentives to rapidly commercialize AI outweighing concerns about safety or ethics. There isn’t much money in responsibility or safety, but there’s plenty in overhyping the technology," by @kharijohnson

Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger

Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.

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She also works in the area of social movements, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. Dr. Hanna has published widely in top-tier venues across the social sciences, including the journals Mobilization, American Behavioral Scientist, and 2/4

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We will have conversations with an incredible group of scholars, journalists and activists. 1. Caroline Hunter who co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement which forced the company to pull out of apartheid South Africa.

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You can watch the recording of our event here: . Thank you once again to our speakers.

#NoTechForApartheid

Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of...

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Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

@DAIRInstitute

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Join us for our #NoTechForApartheid event in with @haymarketbooks to amplify the #NoTechForApartheid campaign & learn what we can do as tech workers. We don't have the registration page yet but you can add your email here to get info: Details in thread 👇

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Read the statement from #StochasticParrots authors @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora and @mmitchell_ai here:

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

www.dair-institute.org

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@emilymbender

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Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter "Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices." w/ @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai and @mcmillan_majora

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Prof. @emilymbender tells us: "if we mistake our ability to make sense of language and images generated by computers for the computers being “thinking” entities, we risk ceding power — not to computers, but to those who would hide behind the curtain."

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"What’s needed is not something out of science fiction — it’s regulation, empowerment of ordinary people and empowerment of workers."

@[email protected] on Mastodon

@emilymbender

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I refuse to be delegated to the "skeptics box" in someone else's framing of a debate. Here is my response to @stevenbjohnson 's NYT Magazine article about LLMs and OpenAI. On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed

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Our second panel moderated by @alexhanna will start in 5 minutes. Join us here: Panelists are: 1. Caroline Hunter who co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement which forced the company to pull out of apartheid South Africa.

#NoTechForApartheid

Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of...

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Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

@DAIRInstitute

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Join us for our #NoTechForApartheid event in with @haymarketbooks to amplify the #NoTechForApartheid campaign & learn what we can do as tech workers. We don't have the registration page yet but you can add your email here to get info: Details in thread 👇

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Celebrating the launch of the @ssrc_just_tech platform. Image description: the @AJLUnited shield (black & white) next to @safiyanoble @ruha9 and @timnitGebru on screen. Also a reflection of @jovialjoy watching the panel.

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Pull up a chair, laptop, pillow… “Size is not always the thing we should be going for…sometimes we need to work and practice things at a small scale” - @ruha9 #JustTech @ssrc_just_tech @DAIRInstitute @C2i2_UCLA

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We are looking for an operations lead to join us full time. If you are interested, take a look at the job post and apply here: .

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"Currently, no one can contest if they have...text that’s been picked up in a training data set...used to train a model, people can’t say no to that. So figuring out how to allow contestation brings with it a...bunch of research questions" @mmitchell_ai

AI-ethics pioneer Margaret Mitchell on her five-year plan at open-source AI startup Hugging Face

Mitchell, who founded Google's AI ethics group, joined the company in August

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"But while authorities generally pitch facial recognition as a tool to capture terrorists or wanted murderers, the technology has also emerged as a critical instrument in a very particular context: punishing protesters." by @DarrenLoucaides

How governments are using facial recognition to crack down on protesters

Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.

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Big Data & Society, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW, FAccT, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna serves a co-chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. 3/4

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Our fellow, @MilagrosMiceli was interviewed for part 2 of @techreview 's series on AI colonialism, by @_KarenHao . "newer data-labeling companies have sought to establish a higher standard for working conditions...

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Dylan Baker ( @dylnbkr ) and Dr. Alex Hanna ( @alexhanna ) write: "Our intent, as the first full-time employees of the newly formed...(DAIR), is to find a new path for technological research, which centers communities impacted most by emerging technologies.

AI Ethics Are in Danger. Funding Independent Research Could Help (SSIR)

For technology to truly work in the public interest, we need to invest in building organizations that are free from corporate profit motives and that respect, integrate, and compensate communities...

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FastCompany included Dr. Hanna as part of their 2021 Queer 50, and she has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences New Science exhibit, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color. 4/4

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5. @antloewenstein who wrote the must read book The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, which Verso has made available FOR FREE as an e-book. Get yours here:

The Palestine Laboratory

Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingShortlisted for the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territo...

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Researchers and practitioners in responsible AI demand an end to the "decades long, tech-enabled apartheid and occupation of the Palestinian people" which has culminated in "a genocide of the Palestinian people." You can sign the letter here 👇

[PUBLIC] The Responsible AI Community in Solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian People

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The first episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 for the year will be on Monday January 8 where Dr.s @alexhanna & @emilymbender will be joined by Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage to talk biometrics. Join us for the live stream at 9am pacific time at .

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Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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As journalist Antony Loewenstein noted in The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World: “Palestine is Israel’s workshop, where an occupied nation on its doorstep provides millions of subjugated people as a laboratory 5/17

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Our 1 year anniversary celebration is happening in ~2 weeks! Sign up here for virtual panels, talks & breakout sessions with us: In our 2nd panel @alexhanna @meronina @dylnbkr & @MilagrosMiceli will discuss non-exploitative community rooted research.

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Looking for more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? Tune in live on Monday Oct 30 at 12pm pacific, when @alexhanna & @emilymbender are joined by @SashaMTL & @strubell to take on hype around AI and the environment.

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Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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As researchers, activists and organizers working in the field of AI, we know that Gaza and the West Bank have been the testing ground for some of the most advanced automated surveillance and warfare technologies before they are exported around the world. 4/17

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We have now setup the registration page for our event where you can directly register below. While the event is free, you have an option to donate with proceeds going to @pal_legal @MedicalAidPal & @RespondCrisis

Register now – #NoTechForApartheid – YouTube, Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Isr...

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Congratulations to our very own @Zebra_023 & @bonjora for being named Rising Stars in AI Ethics & for @milamiceli being named on of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” by Women in AI Ethics.

Rising stars in AI Ethics — 2024

Since 2018, Women in AI Ethics has published the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” list. In the recent years, we have also started…

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with data annotators, collectors, and scientists in different sites around the world.More broadly, she is interested in question of legitimacy and knowledge production in data, worker-led research, labor organizing, and the intersection of Critical Data Studies and data activism.

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"Google & Facebook overhype that they have built one single giant model to solve machine translation for hundreds of languages. If you put it on its face & compare it with smaller startups, like Lesan or @GhanaNLP , the quality is...low." Interview with our fellow @asmelashteka

Asmelash Teka

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Check out my "3 Minutes With" conversation: Thank you Andrew ( @decka227 ) for presenting our conversation so beautifully and Rest of World ( @restofworld ) for highlighting our story. @lesan_ai @GhanaNLP @DAIRInstitute

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You can hear more from Richard on our Stochastic Parrots Day panel where he discussed worker exploitation with @safiyanoble , @MilagrosMiceli and @timnitGebru which you can watch here:

Stochastic Parrots Day: On Worker Exploitation, Data Theft, and the Centralization of Power

For Stochastic Parrots Day 2023, an anonymous data worker from Kenya shares his experience in the labor of training AI language models, and Milagros Miceli and Safiya Noble share their research abo...

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Letter written by members of the Responsible AI community in Solidarity with Gaza and Palestine, open for signatories.

Tina Park

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🧵1/5 Open Letter: The Responsible AI Community in Solidarity with Gaza and Palestine Sign on and Share (list of signatories will be updated once a day):

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"For any automated system, we need to know what it was trained to do, what training data was used, who chose that data and for what purpose...mimicking human behaviour is a “bright line” – a clear boundary not to be crossed – in computer software development."

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I think the main lesson from this week's AI sentience debate is the urgent need for transparency around so-called AI systems. In a bit more detail:

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If you missed DAIR fellow @adrienneandgp and founder @timnitGebru discussing their Noema Magazine article co-written with @MilagrosMiceli on KQED's Forum live radio program, you can listen to the recording here, .

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and #NoTechForApartheid ? 17/17

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Our advisory committee member @safiyanoble is one of the signatories of this letter warning that "those who advocate for even the most basic rights for Palestinians" are facing "doxxing, death threats, deplatforming, censorship, & violent intimidation."

UCLA Faculty for Academic Freedom

To Chancellor Block and the UCLA Administration: We write as members of the UCLA faculty to affirm our commitment to academic freedom and our right—as well as the rights of students and staff—to...

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Our director of research @alexhanna , has written a summary of our team retreat in Costa Rica & highlights from our 1 year anniversary event with talks by @asmelashteka @bonjora @meronina @MilagrosMiceli @adrienneandgp & @dylnbkr here: .

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"A better future for AI is possible—an AI future that isn’t motivated by vast accumulations of data gathered through the poorly regulated extraction of personal information or profit motives that are centered around maximizing and appealing to shareholders quarter after quarter."

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Check out @alexhanna 's and my new piece out today for the @SSIReview x @FordFoundation series on technology in the public interest! We write about why institutes like @DAIRInstitute are more necessary than ever in the current landscape of AI ethics:

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2. @marwasf who leads Access Now's policy & advocacy work on digital rights in MENA region. Take a look at this publication of hers from yesterday. Read "Palestine unplugged: how Israel disrupts Gaza’s internet"

Palestine unplugged: how Israel disrupts Gaza’s internet - Access Now

This report illustrates the state of Gaza's internet throughout October 2023 by looking at internet traffic by ISPs and locations.

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Congratulations to all @FAccTConference best paper awardees, including our fellow @MilagrosMiceli for co-authoring Algorithmic Tools in Public Employment Services: Towards a Jobseeker-Centric Perspective,

Dallas Card

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The full list of @FAccTConference best papers was announced in the Introduction from the General Chairs (links below). Congratulations all!!!

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The Israeli military has killed an estimated 14 Palestinians every hour, and dropped the equivalent of a quarter nuclear bomb just in the first 10 days of its bombardment of Gaza. We call on our peers in the field of AI, 2/17

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If you have been enjoying Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna and @emilymbender this talk is for you. #MAIHT3K

Understanding Large Language Models and Breaking Down the AI Hype | LinkedIn

In this exclusive live talk, I will discuss with Dr. Alex Hanna and Prof. Emily Bender: - What the current AI hype is about, and what are the main counter-arguments; - Why the "Stochastic Parrots" 🦜...

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