Distributed AI Research Institute

Emily and Alex are joined this week by Dr. Jeremy G. Kahn to discuss evaluation metrics and some new AI hell. Jeremy G. Kahn has a PhD in computational linguistics, with a focus on information-theoretic and empirical engineering approaches to d...

Research Fellow Adrienne Williams discusses massive amounts of wage theft committed by Amazon against its delivery drivers. She demonstrates how extra standup meetings, time taken for remedial actions by Amazon’s “Mentor” application, and AI-power...

Research Fellow Dr. Asmelash Teka discusses his work with Lesan.ai, a startup focused on providing a broad range of technology for languages used in Ethiopia and Eritrea. He presents here machine translation and automated speech recognition for Ge...

Research Fellow Raesetje Sefala on her work on using computer vision to detect the persistence of spatial apartheid in South Africa. Although Apartheid legally ended in 1991, the difference between townships, where non-white people were forced to ...

DAIR Executive Director Timnit Gebru holds a conversation with Research Fellow Meron Estefanos, in which they talked about Meron’s activism as a refugee advocate who has rescued more than 16,000 victims of trafficking. Meron discusses the extent t...

Research engineer Dylan Baker talks about how billionaires have taken over the imaginary of technological futures, and how we need to take back that imaginary. Instead of continually playing on the back foot, what would it mean to build something ...

Emily and Alex discuss MetaAI's bullshit science paper generator, Galactica, along with its defenders. Also, more fresh AI hell. Imre Lakatos on research programs https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/ Shah, Chirag and Emily M. Bender....

Emily and Alex discuss Sam Bankman-Fried's Future Fund and their essay contest. Also, we introduce our "What in the Fresh AI Hell?" segment! Citations: Super Forecasting https://goodjudgment.com/about/ Bill Howe - Applied AI in High-Expe...

Emily and Alex are joined this week by Drs. Johnathan Flowers, Negar Rostamzedah, and Jennifer Lena to discuss the hype around AI Art. Dr. Johnathan Flowers is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy at California State Universit...

One of DAIR's pillars is to mitigate harms stemming from the development of artificial intelligence and technology. In this video, our researchers discuss our approaches for assessing and calling out the harms of these technologies. Learn more ...

One of DAIR's pillars is to imagine new and different technologies, especially those that enable marginalized communities. In this video, our researchers discuss what it means to develop for our communities instead of for profit and power. Lear...

The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) is an interdisciplinary and global research institute rooted in the belief that AI is not inevitable, its harms are preventable, and when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and d...

Emily and Alex finally finish their reading of "Can machines learn how to behave?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Citations: Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Emily M. Bender, Amandalynne Paullada, Emily Denton, Alex Hanna. "AI and the Everything in the Who...

Emily and Alex continue their reading of "Can machines learn how to behave?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas. Citations: Vibe Check podcast with Saeed Jones, Zach Stafford, and Sam Sanders https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vibe-check/id1637476...

Technology researchers Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna kick off the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 series by reading through "Can machines learn how to behave?" by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, a Google VP who works on artificial intelligence. You can ch...