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Non-profit organisation. Critical AI literacy - critical thinking about AI and better narratives about AI for public power. Powered by volunteers Our websites: BetterImagesofAI.org WeandAI.org

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Sep 7

Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions:

Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions

Online @hypestudies.bsky.social
10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST

hypestudies.org/conference/c...

Exploring metaphors of AI:
Visualisations, narratives and perception

Hype Studies Conference (Barcelona) and ONLINE
10th September 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST (UTC +2)
Online registration at hypestudies.org

Join an exploration of insightful research and art as explorations on how AI hype narratives derive power from metaphors. Featuring presentations, discussion and Q&A including:

Myra Cheng - Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors
Leo Lau - New visual metaphors of AI
Tania Duarte - Better Images of AI (moderator)
Anuj Gupta and Yasser Atef - ChatGPT metaphors for developing critical AI literacies
Rainer Rehak - AI narrative breakdowns of power and promise

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Jul 21

A fantastic #FAccT2025 edition of the excellent Computer Says Maybe podcast - including me on @weandai.bsky.social workshops about material & sociotechnical concepts of AI for marginalised communities

Also really great chats from other sessions @facct.bsky.social - www.themaybe.org/podcast/afte...

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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · Jun 25

Are you at #FAccT25 this morning and interested in, or working on resisting, reclaiming, refusing or reimagining AI?

If so, we’d love to see you at:
“Challenging Narratives of AI Inevitability - Show and Tell”
at the back of the inside cafe:
10.15 coffee break today

Countering Narrative of Inevitably- Show and Tell flyer
10.15 - 10.45 am Weds 25th Junes details on #facct-social-25 Slack
Hello@weandai.org

Repeat of the flyer picture with the back of the flyer shown. It has a lot of text which is a bit too small to read easily

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’m at #FACCT25 for @weandai.bsky.social and @betterimagesofai.bsky.social to
-run a sensory workshop on marginalised people & sociotechnical AI concepts
-convene a social on Challenging Narratives of AI Inevitability
-learn from some amazing work!
And I made a list bsky.app/profile/did:...

Flyer for countering narratives of inevitability show and tell -10.15 to 10.45 am weds 25th June Details on #facct-social-25 hello@weandai.org

Flyer for We and AI organisation “Critical AI Literacies for Public Power” using images from the Better Images of AI library hello@weandai.org www.weandai.org

AI planet board game - mat with cards, one of the games for the workshop

Tania Duarte and Lizzie Remfrey in front of the Consertoire conference venue with FACTT sign

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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · May 15

📣📣There are just a few days left to enter our ‘digital transformation at work’ art competition with @digitcentre.bsky.social!

Meet the fantastic judging panel looking forward to seeing how budding and activist artists reinvent the scifi-inspired ways digital and work are represented in images👇🏽
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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · Mar 2

✴️ Share takeaways from some of our key projects
✴️ Look forward to what we have planned next, and see how we can collaborate
✴️ Meet and chat with others in small groups

Join ONLINE | 19th March 2025 | 5pm - 7pm UTC | RSVP [email protected]

Picture credits: bit.ly/image_credits

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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · Mar 2

A *lot* of other things have changed, and we invite our wider community to join us online to:
✴️ Explore how the AI & public good landscape in the UK has changed in the last 5 years
✴️ Celebrate the amazing people in our volunteer community who have kept our mission for critical AI literacy going

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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · Mar 2

At the beginning of 2025, We and AI reached a milestone of FIVE YEARS as a voluntary organisation.

Our desire to support a greater diversity of people to make decisions about AI - through having better understanding of how AI technologies impact their values and interests - has not changed.

We and AI 5th Birthday Celebration
It’s been a wild ride! Join us to celebrate our amazing community, look back at our amazing projects, and join small groups to discuss where the (AI) world is 5 years on.
ONLINE | March - 19 - 2025 | 5pm - 7pm UTC | RSVP hello@weandai.org
Poster Illustrated by a collage of images form the Better Images of AI library - betterimagesofai.org. For full attribution and usage see https://bit.ly/image_credits

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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · Feb 14

As part of our new blog series, 'Through My Eyes', Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo shares her reflections on 'Weaving Wires 1' – Hanna Barakat, OLY's 'better image of AI' that was created for the Archival Images of AI playbook.

👉🏽 Read Laura's blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/weaved-wires...

'Weaved Wires Weaving Me' by Laura Martinez Agudelo - Better Images of AI Blog

Laura comments on how the image uncovers the hidden Navajo women's labor behind the assembly of microchips in Silicon Valley – inviting us to confront the oppressive cultural conditions of conception,...

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