Our First Year Anniversary!
We held our first annual DAIR anniversary celebration on December 2 and 3, 2022 with researchers from DAIR presenting their work to our broader community. DAIR’s establishment came exactly one year after Timnit was ousted from Google, and now serves as a day of celebration for different AI futures. Here's a short video introducing DAIR.
Read Alex's summary of our event and retreat
For a short blog post describing some of our work presented at this event, and our team retreat activities, read this blog by Alex.
Our visit to Tecnológico de Costa Rica
We met with Professors José Carranza, Saúl Calderón Ramírez, Laura Gabren-Quiros and many of their wonderful students.
Introducing DAIR | Mitigating harms
This video introduces DAIR's approach to mitigating the harms of AI systems.
Introducing DAIR | Imagining a different set of technologies
This video introduces DAIR's approach to charting a different technological future.
Nobody owns our techno-future
This 10 minute talk by Dylan reminds us that the current "AI" reality is not inevitable.
Wage theft through surveillance
This 10 minute talk by Adrienne discusses how Amazon steals wages from its workers.
Spatial apartheid dataset
Raesetje Sefala explains how we assembled a dataset to help study spatial apartheid in South Africa
Language tech without data theft
This 10 minute talk by Asmelash Teka discusses Lesan's approach to NLP.
Refugee advocacy and transnational repression
This Q&A with Meron shows us the extent to which social media harassment leads to physical harm.