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Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

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Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon

@DAIRInstitute

AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately. Follow us on Mastodon at @[email protected]

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@DAIRInstitute
Aug 28, 2025
🎉 Congratulations to our own @MilagrosMiceli for being on TIME's 100 list of "innovators, leaders, & thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in" AI. Mila is recognized for her Data Workers' Inquiry, a worker led investigation of the impact of data work. 🧵
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@DAIRInstitute
Dec 2, 2021
We are @DAIRInstitute — an independent, community-rooted #AI research institute free from #BigTech's pervasive influence. Founded by @timnitGebru.
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From dair-institute.org
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Nov 20, 2023
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: 634jyapidgs.typeform.com/to/t0PwJvkI Details in thread 👇
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@DAIRInstitute
Feb 2, 2022
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
Feb 2, 2022
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. alex-hanna.medium.com/43fd8045991d
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Nov 4, 2022
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.
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Oct 26, 2023
Join us in demanding a #CeasefireNOW and #NoTechForApartheid. Our full statement here: dair-institute.org/blog/palestine…
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@DAIRInstitute
Aug 14, 2024
We, along with @AINowInstitute and @logic_magazine, are proud to support Surveillance Watch: an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. surveillancewatch.io
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@DAIRInstitute
Jun 17, 2022
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.
From washingtonpost.com
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Dec 2, 2021
Replying to @DAIRInstitute
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 dair-institute.org/about
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Dec 12, 2023
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?
arxiv.org
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
Sep 21, 2023
"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
From just-tech.ssrc.org
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@DAIRInstitute
Nov 9, 2022
For our 1 year anniversary virtual events, we'll have talks, panels and breakout discussions with attendees. Sign up here: bit.ly/3NRaLSG Why should we always clean up after harmful tech rather than implementing our imagination of a technological future that serves us?
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Oct 5, 2022
We are hiring a senior community-based researcher. Full job ad and application here:
codeforsociety.org
Code for Science & Society | Senior Community-Based Researcher -…
Advancing the power of data to improve the social and economic lives of all people.
Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon
@DAIRInstitute
Apr 4, 2022
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...