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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · May 8

Transformative! Congratulations on #10YearsofImpact @womenatthetable.bsky.social! We're looking forward to the next decade of impact and transformation!

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 16

We're back 🚨 Our Human Rights Toolbox #SummerSchool begins on June 3rd! 💥 Registrations are now open: aiequalitytoolbox.com/online-schoo...

🌍 Whether you're tech-savvy or totally non-technical, if you're passionate about #humanrights and AI, this is for you. Join a vibrant global cohort!

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Women At The Table @womenatthetable.bsky.social · May 7

For 10 years, we've been redesigning tables—not just adding chairs. At @womenatthetable.bsky.social, we've driven systems change by placing #genderequality at decision-making tables that shape our world. #10YearsOfImpact #SystemsChange

🔗 Full story: www.womenatthetable.net/2025/05/06/w...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚨PubTalk: Leveraging AI Regulation for Inclusive Design: The High-Risk #EUAIAct Toolkit (HEAT) with Tomasz Hollanek | @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social

🗓 May 15 | 3:00 PM UTC

RSVP: community.aiequalitytoolbox.com/c/march-fed1...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚀 We’re excited to host Anna Neumann, PhD researcher (@rctrust.bsky.social) for a #PubTalk ✨ on "Seeing What's Missing: Bringing #ResponsibleAI Research Gaps into Focus Through A Landscape Analysis"

⏰ 8 May | 3PM UTC

Read more and register: community.aiequalitytoolbox.com/c/march-fed1...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 16

We're back 🚨 Our Human Rights Toolbox #SummerSchool begins on June 3rd! 💥 Registrations are now open: aiequalitytoolbox.com/online-schoo...

🌍 Whether you're tech-savvy or totally non-technical, if you're passionate about #humanrights and AI, this is for you. Join a vibrant global cohort!

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 1

2️⃣ #TeachableAI for Accessibility | Find My Things: an AI system that helps individuals who are blind or have #lowvision locate personal objects, emphasizing the profound impact AI can have on #accessibility

Paper 👉 www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Find My Things: Personalized Accessibility through Teachable AI for People who are Blind or Low Vision - Microsoft Research

We demonstrate Find My Things as an end-to-end example of applying Teachable AI systems to address the diversity of accessibility needs. An application that can be taught by people who are blind or low vision to find their personal things, Find My Things illustrates the potential Teachable AI holds for accessibility.

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 1

She highlighted two fascinating projects:

1️⃣ #GenerativeAI for Game Creators: an #AImodel designed to support game developers with ideation, enhancing the creative process by generating diverse, consistent & user-modifiable gameplay sequences. ✨Published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

World and Human Action Models towards gameplay ideation - Nature

A state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence model of a video game is introduced to allow the support of human creative ideation, with the analysis of user study data highlighting three neces...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚀 Exciting #OpenStudio Recap! 🎥 We recently had the pleasure of hosting Linda Wen, who shared insights as a design researcher working at #MicrosoftResearch | on how we can build AI systems that also prioritize #humanagency, safety, and fairness.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqt...

Linda Wen | Designing AI for Human Agency

YouTube video by Women at The Table

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Mar 20

The rebuilding of computer systems to accommodate AI represents "the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web." It's “reshaping not just technology but also finance, energy and communities.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers

Tech companies are revamping computing — from how tiny chips are built to the way they are arranged, cooled and powered — in the race to build artificial intelligence that recreates the human brain.

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Towers @marymayling.bsky.social · Jan 23

Worker led innovation is key to ensuring AI at work is genuinely beneficial for all, equitable, sustainable and just. This timely and important report from @jlthorne.bsky.social KIT Karlsruhe @autonomy-institute.bsky.social sets out historical examples we can draw on to inform present challenges.

The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · Jan 23

NEW REPORT 🚨"Shaping digital futures in work and society: the case of worker-led innovation" by Jessica Thorne

Commissioned & published by KIT Karlsruhe, the report offers a deeper dive into the Lucas Plan, including new interviews with former employees 👇

https://buff.ly/42J0phx

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Feb 9

What are the benefits and risks of open source AI? How can confronting current AI risks and harms help us develop a toolkit for future ones? Why and how should we pursue “thick alignment” of AI models and uses? Great convo today w/ @yoshuabengio.bsky.social @jakobmokander.bsky.social #AIActionSummit

Yoshua Bengio and Alondra Nelson seated on a stage in discussion behind a black background that reads in white letters: governing in the age of AI. He wears 10 pants, a plum shirt and a navy sports coat. she wears a black suit and a dark gray blouse. She is speaking and gesturing with her hands.

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Feb 7

We have recently published our AI & Equality #WhitePaper "Integrating #HumanRights Considerations Along the AI Lifecycle A Framework to AI Development"

➡️ aiequalitytoolbox.com/aie-white-pa...

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Women At The Table @womenatthetable.bsky.social · Feb 6

It's out! 🤩 Our #WhitePaper is a must-read.

🔷 Our framework demands that communities—not just companies—shape #AI from the start.

🔷 No more black-box decisions. No more systems that serve the powerful at the expense of the rest.

aiequalitytoolbox.com/aie-white-pa...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Feb 6

AI for Everyone—Not Just the Few.

🚨AI decisions affect all of us. If the system isn’t built with everyone in mind, it’s built for failure.

📖 Read our latest #WhitePaper: aiequalitytoolbox.com/aie-white-pa...

#InclusiveAI #AIJustice #AIActionSummit

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 30

Mark your calendars! 🛎️

Our upcoming #OpenStudio will host Kristy Claassen on | Disrupting Concepts: #Ubuntu & AI

🗓️ Feb 13th - 2PM UTC

Join our community & RSVP: community.aiequalitytoolbox.com/c/march-fed1...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 27

Exciting stuff! 🥳The newsletter outlines how we are turning our Framework for #AIDevelopment and our Human rights-based approach into 4 separate Toolboxes that focus on sector or region!

Read the @womenatthetable.bsky.social newsletter: mailchi.mp/womenattheta...

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 20

We've just hosted Rachel Adams for a #booktalk on our Circle Community. Check it out ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI46...

Rachel Adams. The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequalities

YouTube video by Women at The Table

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 20

We've just hosted Rachel Adams for a #booktalk on our Circle Community. Check it out ☺️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI46...

Rachel Adams. The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequalities

YouTube video by Women at The Table

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 20

We've just hosted Rachel Adams for a #booktalk on our Circle Community. Check it out ☺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI46...

Rachel Adams. The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequalities

YouTube video by Women at The Table

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 20

📣 📣 It's here if you've missed it!

🎙️ A rich and insightful #bookconversation with Rachel Adams, Author of The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global #Inequalities, which unpacks the intricate debates on #AI and asymetries of #power | Hosted by Caitlin Kraft Buchman

Rachel Adams. The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequalities

YouTube video by Women at The Table

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Jan 13

A very important voice in the whole AI debacle — please have a listen to @ali-alkhatib.com

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Jan 13

🎙️Please enjoy!
@ali-alkhatib.com

pca.st/episode/ff64...

Defining, with Ali Alkhatib - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and f...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jan 14

Drawing inspiration from the multistakeholder approach, Chris Riley and Constance de Leusse offer three recommendations for the Paris AI Action Summit in February: modular multistakeholder governance, portability and interoperability, and involvement of diverse stakeholders:

A Call for Modular Multistakeholder AI Governance: Practical Recommendations for the Upcoming AI Action Summit | TechPolicy.Press

Drawing inspiration from the multistakeholder approach, Chris Riley and Constance de Leusse make three key recommendations for the Summit.

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 7

We are excited to kick off our #AIEquality January programming with a #BookTalk with Rachel Adams, author of The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality

January 16th ⏰ 3PM UTC | 5PM SAST

📌 Hosted on our Circle community | RSVP: community.aiequalitytoolbox.com/feed

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AI & Equality @aiequality.bsky.social · Jan 1

Registration is still open for our AI & Equality #HumanRights Toolbox course starting January 7th!

⏰ Duration: 4 weeks | 2.5 hours of study weekly
📣 100% online | Live tutoring and directed learning

Register now: aiequalitytoolbox.com/online-schoo...

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