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Screenshot of an image from the linked Fast Company article in the description. The image has 3 circles, the first circle has a photo of Timnit, the 2nd is a green circle and the 3rd is a yellow circle that looks like it has circuitry. The background is black, with what looks like a fence.

Many models for many people

Counteracting the "one giant model for everything" approach by BigTech, by empowering small, community-rooted organizations around the world building task specific models serving their needs. Read this interview and our paper.

An image by Jamillah Knowles & Reset.Tech Australia / Better Images of AI / People with phones / CC-BY 4.0 It shows a bunch of people walking, standing in a wheel chair, all looking at their phones. The image is brown in color.

Social media harms

Creating natural language processing tools, and using mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) approaches to analyze the impacts of social media platforms on neglected countries and languages. Watch our short documentary on the topic.

Screenshot from the Huniki Federation website features abstract designs in bright primary colors like blue, green, and red, on a white background. The text reads, "Outperform the mega-models. Put language tech in the hands of people who actually speak it." The logos for participating organization line up below this: Khaya AI, Lesan AI, Algorine, Ghana NLP, Lelapa, and DAIR.

Language Technology

Africa

Tools

Huniki Federation: Many Models for Many People

Counteracting the "one giant model for everything" approach by BigTech by empowering small, community-rooted organizations around the world building task-specific models serving their needs. Check out the Huniki Federation website for more.

Illustration of four people clustered together, looking at a laptop screen. They have a variety of skin tones, but all of them have the appearance of age -- gray streaks in hair, white hair, or wrinkled faces. Image pop-outs from the computer show the faces of two children who they appear to be talking to. The wall behind the elders is purple, and a plant sits on a stool to the left.

Possible Futures

Blog

An Internet for Our Elders

An internet that benefits our future is one that enables everyone to contribute to the richness of our global conversation.

An illustration with 2 silhouettes and speech bubbles looking at what looks like a paper towel dispensor that has 2 holes that look like eyes. Yellow and orange background. This image is in the linked DW article in the discription

Language Technology

Possible Futures

Language tech without data theft

We have partnered with lesan.ai and Whose Knowledge? to work on language tech in a manner that does not steal data from communities and supports locally relevant content creation (read how Lesan outperforms Google, and this Deutsche Welle article on the AI language gap).