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 in just a few hours for the launch of The AI Con (
THE AI CON
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
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"For all its promised benefits, the artificial-intelligence boom is likely to prove costly to public health and even lead to hundreds of deaths a year in the U.S. alone, and those ill effects are likely to disproportionately hit poorer communities, according to a study by California researchers..."
San Francisco Examiner
AI pollution could cost billions
Recent research projects AI data centers’ public-health harms.
Congratulations to @Timnit Gebru (she/her). for being awarded the 2025 Miles Conrad Awardee! "The award recognizes her critical work on the dangers of biases in AI as the information community grapples with ethics and rapidly advancing technologies." Dr. Gebru will deliver the Miles Conrad Lecture at #NISOPlus25.
Dr. Timnit Gebru to Receive the 2025 Miles Conrad Award
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Timnit Gebru, Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), will b...
Congratulations to our very own @Alex Hanna for being named in Business Insider's 2024 "AI Power List."
Business Insider
Alex Hanna, DAIR's director of research explores AI's impact on communities
Alex Hanna, a former Google AI ethicist, is leading DAIR's research on communities most affected by AI.
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We are proud to support Logic (s)' Palestinian Journalist Fellowship in Collaboration with Arab Reform Initiative. "The purpose of this program is to support community-led storytelling on Palestine and its relationship to technology, to strengthen the magazine’s contributions to Palestine reporting, and to redistribute resources to Palestinian journalists." Read more👇
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“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
Rest of World
Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
Join the Techworkers Coalition and DAIR for an online panel covering AI myths, misinformation, and the history of automation featuring @Alex Hanna and @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) 📆 Sept 3rd at 8pm ET / 5pm PT 🎟️ Register at https://bit.ly/twc-ai-meetings image
"On August 14, Meta killed their leading transparency tool — right in the middle of the biggest election year ever." Our very own @dylan notes: "Losing CrowdTangle is a huge and exhausting setback in our hate speech research. This is yet another infuriating reminder that social media companies should not be dictating the parameters of the research that investigates them.
RIP CrowdTangle
RIP CrowdTangle
On August 14, Facebook killed off CrowdTangle, a critical transparency tool