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Ismael K.G. @hermeneuticist.bsky.social · 19d

Thrilled to be joining @ftollon.bsky.social at RSA House and online, 9th October at 6pm (UTC+1), with @taniaduarte.bsky.social to discuss Tollon’s recent work with @shannonvallor.bsky.social on the #ResponsibleAI landscape.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-respon...

Poster for the responsible AI landscape event, taking place at RSA House and online on 9th October at 6pm (UTC+1).

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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 22

In London, UK next week and up for a fun summer social? Join @betterimagesofai.bsky.social and Mixed Initiative for a world cafe session, where we explore how metaphors shape our thinking about AI, its power, its limits, and its politics.

Request invite here: lu.ma/s4i1uqhq

Weird Metaphors of AI · Luma

Join Mixed Initiative and Better Images of AI for an after-work world cafe session, where we explore how metaphors shape our thinking about AI, its power, its…

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Jul 21

Love this last sentence, will be quoting it for sure, thanks!

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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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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Computer Says Maybe | After the FAccT: Materiality and Militarisation
#greece #digital #infrastructure @alixdunn.com
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After the FAccT: Materiality and Militarisation | Computer Says Maybe | Episode 64

Georgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team just went to FAccT. Georgia and Soizic interviewed a bunch of amazing researchers, practitioners, and artists to give you a taste of what the conference ...

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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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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Jun 23

Really enjoyed this presentation and would love to ask about the qualitative findings you are working on writing up on how participant we’re defining AI - for a session @weandai.bsky.social are running on Tuesday in the Art Lounge

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session.

You can also participate online!

ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

AI Workers' Inquiry

AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...

ai-workers-inquiry.github.io

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TLA Tech for Disability @techfordisability.bsky.social · Jun 9

When it comes to financing disability tech, are funding options fit for purpose?

Join our virtual panel discussion on Mon 9 June, as part of #LondonTechWeek to explore what it would take to achieve a more inclusive startup funding landscape.

Book here bit.ly/3YUFepW

An amazing panel include:

An event poster asking "Do growth and profit imperatives limit inclusive innovation? Online panel discussion Monday 9th June 2025 - 13:00 - 14:00 BST. London Tech Week. techfordisability.org

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TLA Tech for Disability @techfordisability.bsky.social · Jun 9

⭐ Matt Pierri, CEO & Founder of @sociability.bsky.social
⭐ Sophie Mason, Founder & CEO of ThinkEDI
⭐ Orr Vinegold, Founder of Unrest
⭐ @Yijuan Li, Co-Founder of @Sounteract
⭐ Kathy Marcham, Portfolio Manager of Social Tech Trust
Chaired by Coté Auil, Researcher of Global Disability Innovation Hub

A card blonde Sophie Mason, Founder and CEO of Think EDI on an event poster with the title Do growth and profit imperatives limit inclusive innovation?

An event poster showing Yijuan Li, Co-Founder Sounteract on an event poster with the title Do growth and profit imperatives limit inclusive innovation?

Matt Pierri - CEO and Founder of Sociability on an event poster with the title Do growth and profit imperatives limit inclusive innovation?

An event card showing Kathy Marcham, Portfolio Manager, Social Tech Trust, GoodTech Ventures

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · May 30

In my first op-ed for @nytimes.com, I argue that the alliance between Silicon Valley & the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill now up in the Senate, which would ban states from regulating AI for a decade, will only cement that trajectory. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point

www.nytimes.com

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · May 15

I can't wait to sort through some great ways to more creatively represent the issues related to digital and work than dumping a white robot next to a computer!

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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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Mar 29

Worth remembering on AI Literacy Day

Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · Mar 28

Expanding AI literacy, in the absence of interrogation of the forces behind it & the context in which it operates, serves to reinforce an agency-defeating belief in AI manifest destiny. We need to constantly dissect assumptions. You may find this interesting 👇🏽

medium.com/coinmonks/th...

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Mar 28

This is the guide to AI Agents you need

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Mar 28

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @mmitchell.bsky.social joins me & @alexhanna.bsky.social to talk about “AI” “agents” -- what that means, what the salesmen want you to think it means, and what to actually be concerned about.

Catch the livestream here:

Mon 3/31, noon Pacific

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme is thrilled to announce the selection of seven outstanding UK-based artists for our commissioning project aimed at exploring and enriching the responsible AI ecosystem through artistic expression...

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Mar 10

Statement from DSIT today is so confusing. There has been a power imbalance in this country. Which can only be fixed by ignoring the needs of civil society in favour of working with big tech and VCs. Because, they are not powerful enough? Does it mean old ideas like ethics, safety and inclusion?

The Science and Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, said:

Everywhere you see, there is an imbalance of power in this country which has – for too long – made it impossible to imagine a better future for Britain.

To deliver our Plan for Change we have to shift the balance of power, away from stagnation and old ideas, towards innovation and opportunity, and the bold people building a new future for Britain.

In doing so, by 2035 we could see a whole new Britain emerge, harnessing the power of technological development, from engineering biology to AI, semiconductors and cyber security, or quantum and future telecoms for a stronger economy and better lives for all in the UK.

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Mar 2

It's been a wild 5 years - please join us to celebrate it an an online community event!

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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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Feb 19

Circle of life or something. Great article and image.

Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · Feb 19

Psyched to have a work of mine from the @betterimagesofai.bsky.social gallery used to illustrate a great article... that was in turn reposted by one of the people who coauthored the original OSTP Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights on which I built my piece for a BoR for education. 😍

Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · Feb 19

Fantastic article. And when I grow up I want to teach a course with as spectacular a name

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · Feb 18

🚨 EXPOSED: Every #NHS patient needs to watch this...⬇️

Palantir CEO Alex Karp bragged about scaring enemies & neutralising them - whilst his spy tech company has a £330m contract to handle our NHS patient records.

Get Palantir & its CEO away from our NHS!

youtube.com/shorts/tXdCA...

Every NHS patient needs to see this. #nhs #politics #viral #data #news #nhsprivatisation #trump #uk

YouTube video by Just Treatment

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Feb 14

Open Philanthropy www.gov.uk/government/n...

Fellowships launched to explore how AI could change the way scientists drive new discoveries

New government-funded fellowships will see researchers explore how AI can change the way we conduct research while 23 projects have been awarded funding to explore wider research and innovation.

www.gov.uk

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Feb 14

I think they are swimming in it. So hard to pull them out though

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Feb 14

And at midnight AI Safety Institute became AI Security Institute. Earlier this week £1.8 million funding announced from effective altruists. Running out of popcorn

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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · Feb 14

-24th April 2023 UK Foundation Model Taskforce announced
-July? 2023 Foundation Model Taskforce becomes Frontier AI Taskforce
-3rd Nov 2023 Frontier AI Taskforce becomes AI Safety Institute
-14th Feb 2025 UK AI Safety Institute becomes AI Security Institute www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Tackling AI security risks to unleash growth and deliver Plan for Change

UK’s AI Safety Institute becomes ‘UK AI Security Institute’.

www.gov.uk

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