Krystal talks to ABC News about the human labor that goes into training AI, including her own experience as a gig worker, and the precarity many face despite the necessity of this work to tech company profits.
Elaine talks about the ways AI currently fails to serve patients, both through missing context and the embedded biases of its training data. "And, as Nsoesie observes, perhaps we can entirely reframe the opportunity AI poses in health care. Instead of trying to measure the biological qualities of individuals with machines, we might deploy those models to learn something about entire regions and communities."
Nyalleng: "If it works with people and works for people, then it has to be regulated.”
Our spatial apartheid work was featured in MIT Technology Review!
Stochastic Parrots is AI Related Word of the 2023! Read this article on the origins of the word.
Asme: "Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
Timnit and Safiya were featured in this Rolling Stone article that reached more than 1 million readers.
Remote Mechanical Turk workers are responsible for training artificial intelligence algorithms and completing other data-related business processes - we hear about the workplace issues they face.
Article in German about our fellow Meron Estefanos. The English translation of the title is The lonely huntress of human traffickers.
Our fellow, Adrienne Williams, has won a Just Tech fellowship. Read her project description here.
Dylan Baker joins Sarah Roberts to discuss the exploited labor fueling AI systems.
Timnit was listed in Time’s 100 in AI, FastCompany’s AI 20, Nature’s 10, Time’s 100, and The Continent’s Africans of the Year.
In this interview, Asmelash Teka breaks down how ChatGPT fails to serve Black people around the world.
DAIR was the cover story of issue 9 of The Continent.
This article in the Financial Times breaks down the TESCREAL bundle of idoelogies driving the race to attempt to build "artificial general intelligence."
Alex was on NPR's Market place discussing what generative AI is and isn't.
Alex and other panelists at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco remind the audience that AI is primarily being used for surveillance purposes.
Mila's work was discussed in this article detailing the labor exploitation fueling AI systems.
After the Whistle Blows: Silicon Valley likes to celebrate and lionize disruptors. But for women in the tech industry who speak out, there can be a high price to pay for rocking the boat.
Adrienne, Mila and Timnit's works were discussed in this article detailing the labor exploitation fueling AI systems.
Mila's work is discussed in this article discussing how the AI industry exploits labor.
After her departure, she joined Timnit Gebru’s Distributed AI Research Institute, and work is well underway.
Timnit appeared on the CBS show 60 minutes, to discuss the dangers of large language models.
The Washington Post covered DAIR's launch.