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Last Notes npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR ✨Your Daily Reminder✨: We don't have to build technology to surveil and kill. We can build technology that helps us fight for a better future. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR How can we build an organized force for tech justice? Oakland Tech Week is exploring the possibilities. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR What happens to consent in a workplace where refusing a request means losing work? Find out in the new report by James Mojez Oyange, one of the workers whose face, voice, and documents were collected by the companies that employed him. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR “‘AI’ might not be good for xyz, but you can’t deny that it’s helpful for programming” -- sound familiar? On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 @nprofile…8f3n and @nprofile…5876 will be digging in to this dubious claim! npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR 🔇 🔇 🔇 Are you in New York City this Wednesday May 6? npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR If you're in NYC on April 30th, then come hang out with us. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai-hype-theater-3000-live-tickets-1986920944030 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Today! npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Tune into the next livestream of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join us this Friday. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887?aff=oddtdtcreator. More information below 👇 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Today! npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000... npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR 🔇🔇🔇 Are you in the Portland area? Looking to exercise your imaginative muscles and take a break from doom scrolling? npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - Data Centers Go Nuclear npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Thought gig work couldn’t get more horrifying? Well, what if your employer was secretly the US military....On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Niamh McIntyre joins @nprofile…5876 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Come Work With Us! npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Was the Anthropic hullabaloo ultimately an example of an AI company finally standing up to the Trump regime and doing the “right thing” when it comes to concerns about the lethal entanglement between the military and “AI”? Sadly, no. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR TODAY ⬇️ npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, @nprofile…5876 and @nprofile…8f3n will try to keep their feet firmly on the ground when they're joined by Adam Becker to discuss flimsy fantasies of data centers in space: npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR NEW! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 71: A Bad Case of Hype-itis npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR 🎧Join the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream🎧 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Our very own @nprofile…wv5r and Krystal will be at this free, virtual Sundance event with Valerie Veatch, director of the movie Ghost in the Machine. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Remember Time magazine's 2025 Person of the Year "AI" cover featuring Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman et al? npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Today is the 12th anniversary of 369 Eritrean refugees who drowned in Lampedusa (Italy) exactly 12 years ago. As our researcher and refugee advocate Meron Estefanos wrote, one of them was 22 years old and was giving birth as she was drowning. Her body was later found with an umbilical cord attached to her baby. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR 🎉 Congratulations to our very own @nprofile…jxqp for being named one of TIME's 100 "innovators, leaders, and thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "To try to live without using plastic now (at least in the US) is an extremely expensive endeavor, both in terms of money and n terms of time. Plastic is so deeply integrated into so many of our systems that it is very difficult to avoid. But we are at a moment with "AI" where things aren't so deeply integrated, though corporate interests are pushing for them to be. So I believe that every act of refusal is especially powerful and meaningful now..." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "Dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, as a source of investment. This then compounds the need for structural separation: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft must be compelled to split their cloud business from their other businesses that run on the cloud, so that they do not both provide infrastructure and compete with the customers and investees relying on that infrastructure." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Trump's AI Action Plan consolidates power and capital to Big Tech (surprise surprise). On today's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @nprofile…mr93 and @nprofile…gd2c were joined by AI Now Institute’s Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West to piece through all the bull. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "While executives and consultants talk of efficiency and experience, a very different story is being told by those on the front lines of the AI economy. Adrienne Williams, a former Amazon delivery driver and warehouse worker, offers a starkly different perspective. “It’s a new era in like forced labor,” she says. “It’s not slavery, because slavery is different. You can’t move around, but it is forced labor.” 🧵 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR In this article for Africa in Fact, Adio writes: npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Did you miss this phenomenal conversation between Catt Small, Rudy Fraser, @nprofile…cfmj and @nprofile…0vqk? npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR In less than an hour, join us for another iteration of Mystery AI Hype Theater with @nprofile…mr93 and @nprofile…gd2c who will be joined by Susanna Cox to tear into the hype around LLMs for coding & software development more generally. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "It’s not that labor is being replaced, necessarily” by a generative AI tool or application “that is able to do a one-to-one replacement for some kind of employee,” said @nprofile…mr93 director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Surveillance Watch now has an interactive diagram that shows the high level of funding towards various surveillance technology types: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/?menu=funders&funderOverview=true npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR You can check out what we made in our last zine workshop at https://zines.dair-institute.org/possible-futures-issue-1 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Our prompt this time: 🔥 Aflame🔥 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Did you miss our last possible futures panel and creative workshop? Don't worry. @nprofile…r6wl and Pauline Wee are organizing another one in just one week, with a different theme. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam (@nprofile…gsyc) is an activist, artist & scholar from Atlanta, & one of the 1st people that identified the growing online threat of white nationalism & hate organizing online. They continue this work in the fediverse. See this convo with them & Artist Marcia X. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Catt Small has worked with companies of all sizes. She started programming interactive games around the age of 10 & has been going ever since. In her spare time, Catt makes awkward video games, writes, and draws artwork of all kinds. You can view her work at https://cattsmall.com. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR 🔇🔇🔇Join us for an honest conversation with some of the people forging a better digital future. Event will be recorded for those who can't make it. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR In 2025, we're committing to spending more time articulating the technological future we want and how to execute on making it a reality. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join us at https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute in just a few hours for the launch of The AI Con (https://thecon.ai). npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR ***Correction*** This will be at @ 1pm PDT/ 4pm EDT/9pm BST/ npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join us tomorrow for another Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream with @nprofile…mr93 and @nprofile…gd2c. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Thank you to Prithvi Iyer for covering our research on the failures of content moderation in the context of #TigrayGenocide and how to prevent genocidal speech from being proliferated by social media platforms. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Thank you to Surveillance Watch for tracking ICE contractors, many of whom were involved in surveilling and selling data of student protestors to ICE. Go to www.surveillancewatch.io for more detailed information. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join us for @nprofile…qw6d in less than 30 minutes, where @nprofile…5u9q will breakdown "agentic AI" nonsense. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Emily M. Bender (@nprofile…gd2c) will set the record straight w.r.t. what today's chatbots can and can't do, in this event that has been advertised as "the great chatbot debate."* npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join @nprofile…mr93 and @nprofile…gd2c tomorrow, Monday March 17, for another live stream of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join us on Monday March 3 (tomorrow) for another live stream of @nprofile…qw6d at 12pm pacific. You can also catch the recording if you miss it. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "For all its promised benefits, the artificial-intelligence boom is likely to prove costly to public health and even lead to hundreds of deaths a year in the U.S. alone, and those ill effects are likely to disproportionately hit poorer communities, according to a study by California researchers..." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR 🔇🔇🔇 Will you be at the AI Action Summit next week? npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Congratulations to @nprofile…e5sk for being awarded the 2025 Miles Conrad Awardee! npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR ✨ Join us this Monday July 29 at 1pm pacific for a live stream of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 at https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Mark your calendars for the launch of the Data Workers' Inquiry project on July 8 at 8am PDT/5pm CET. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "Some of the world’s poorest countries have been investing heavily in digital ID systems which it is claimed will deliver democratic and development dividends. Africa has been at the forefront of this push supported by the World Bank, UN agencies and the international community. Some of Africa’s most fragile states have been encouraged to spend billions of dollars on biometric systems from national IDs to voting systems." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/112/560/044/448/690/570/original/9403441c87645f47.png npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR “US Big Tech companies are systemically abusing and exploiting African workers. In Kenya, these US companies are undermining the local labor laws, the country’s justice system and violating international labor standards. Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.” npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "Wanted to say, If they can pull this on a Hollywood celebrity what about "unknown" people, & I realised no need to imagine whats already happened, is happening" Adio-Adet Dinika on OpenAI using Scarlett Johansson's voice without consent or compensation. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "I’ve written about relationships between tech companies and the military before, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by anything I saw or heard at this conference. But when it ended, and I departed DC for home, it felt like my life force had been completely sucked out of my body." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Angie Wang's illustrated essay for the New Yorker, wondering whether her child's early attempts at speech were the same as LLMs, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. "A toddler has a life, and learns language to describe it. An L.L.M. learns language but has no life of its own to describe," she writes. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "Is lack of diverse representation in data problematic? It sure is, but merely expanding exploitation of data subjects is not the answer." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Don't forget to subscribe to our monthly newsletter on our website for monthly updates. https://twitter.com/DAIRInstitute/status/1787674763047186691 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958" via @npub12jr…yecj npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR If you missed today's episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, you can still find the recording at https://twitch.tv/dair_institute npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Abdullahi Tsanni writes about our work on investigating the impacts of South African spatial apartheid. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Researchers in responsible AI say no to "decades long, tech-enabled apartheid and occupation of the Palestinian people" You can sign the letter here 👇 npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34 percent — up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually — last year, which outside researchers told the AP is most likely due to increased AI training. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20 percent jump that's also likely attributable to machine learning." Via Tech Won't Save Us. npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR If you have been enjoying Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna and @npub1e0a…eww0 this talk is for you. #MAIHT3K npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR "There are a few things they all want us to know: AI is not magic. LLMs are not sentient beings, and they won’t become sentient. And the problems with these technologies aren’t abstractions — they’re here now and we need to take them seriously today." npub1kt2jytptmqjdzlv7pcjzay2ehvq385ttgjlsm4rw92rhpcfe6d6q0xgall DAIR Join @npub1x76…2qpx and @npub1e0a…eww0 tomorrow at 1:30pm PDT for another edition of #MAIHT3k to discuss the "voluntary commitments" by a number of companies working on "AI" announced in the last few weeks.
