We build the technologies we want to see in the world.
People want and deserve to see themselves reflected in technology. We believe that the suite of tools known as “artificial intelligence” can include thoughtful, supportive, and inclusive technologies that benefit our communities. However, we also believe that AI is seldom the solution and its advance should not be treated as inevitable.
Timnit Gebru - the first Black woman to be hired as a research scientist at Google in the United States—brainstormed a solution with fellow history-maker Rediet Abebe, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in computer science from Cornell University and the first Black woman to become a tenure-track professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Timnit W. Gebru (Amharic and Tigrinya: ትምኒት ገብሩ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining.[5] She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pushed for more Black roles in AI development and research.
The Distributed AI Research Institute is an independent organization conducting community-rooted research. We are a globally distributed group of academics, activists, and engineers who believe in technology that benefits everyone.
He makes it childs play for us, but we'll play our role in determining good emissions from bad ones
"An xAI supercomputer facility designed to power and train Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, Colossus is slated to be the world’s largest supercomputer, it was established in 2024."
"Those inputs are alarming, but the outputs are even worse. The facility’s behemoth methane gas turbines increase Memphis’s smog by 30-60% as they belch planet-warming nitrogen oxides and poisonous formaldehyde around the clock, pollutants linked to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Quoting SELC, “xAI has been operating dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines without public notice, permits, or air pollution controls. The number of turbines and extent of their emissions likely make xAI the largest industrial source of smog-forming pollutant in Memphis.”
Excerpt from Bit2men SUBSTACK below
The analogies are endless, when a new neighbor moves into the neighborhood, there is a litmus test to pass, this is common in most sociey and cultural situations
When a new neighbor moves in they are respected to respect the "hood", this is a given, since when was it cool for a new neighbor to move in and just start soiling, poisoining, and draining the communities resources
THIS DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS PLAYING ON OR EVEN FOR THE HOME TEAM
"THEY'RE NOT PART OF THE "HOOD"
ok, SO THEY PLAY FOR THE away TEAM, THAT MEANS THAT They's Aren't looking out for the people in the hood they live in, their loyalties lie elsewhere, they may wave at you in passing, but they don't mingle with the hood, they play for the away team
now what happens in a culture when a stranger comes in on a slick vehicle telling all to come around so that they can be sold the latest snake oil, in this case it is part of a system made by THE REPTILE, but we digress, this snake oil salesman told the town square what it wanted to hear, he gained their favour and then exploited it , he tailored it to explot as much money as possible for his roadshow
Foul, Out of Bounds, Off Road
Afroféminas is an online community and political organization created in 2014 to give a voice to and make Black women visible in Spain. It's objective is to be a digital medium where Black women can discuss literature, opinions, poetry, and journalism to establish a dialogue from the perspectives of racialized women. The organization's founder and current director is Antoinette Torres Soler, a social researcher of Cuban origin. Educated at the University of Havana, Cuba, and active in Spain with the University of Zaragoza and other prominent aspects of Spanish culture, Antoinette Torres has strong focus and is driven to push the envelope forward for her organizations causes.
(Afromefeminas TV was the first streaming platform focused on the voices and experiences of women of color in a book published in 2018 "Viviendo en modo Afroféminas" "Living Afroeféminas Style"
AfrofeminasGPT it is a unique consultation and training tool, created to respond from the perspective of black thought, Afrofeminism and empowerment pedagogies.
Fed with fundamental texts from authors such as bell hooks, Angela Davis, Frantz Fanon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Octavia Butler and Stuart Hall, in addition to original content Antoinette Torres Soler —including fragments of his book Living in Afrofeminas mode, own analyzes and educational materials such as stories for children—, this GPT has been refined to offer critical, ethical, non-punitive and deeply human responses.
Stephen K. Ibaraki has been a teacher, an industry analyst, writer and consultant in the IT industry, and the former president of the Canadian Information Processing Society.
Currently, Ibaraki is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, futurist and speaker. He is also the founder of the UN ITU AI for Good Global Summit, and a vicechair of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health, founding chair of the Financial Services Roundtable Tech Advisory Council, and founding chair of the International Federation for Information Processing Global Industry Council. Ibaraki serves as an Advisor for the Business Development Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. He is the co-founder for the Technology Advisory Board at Yintech Investment Holdings Limited.
In 2018, he was invited to be a founding member of IPSoft's AI Pioneers Steering Committee and he was also invited to join the Science and Technology Council for the ARCH Mission Foundation. Aside from taking on these new roles, he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Yonder25 Conference as well as the Reshaping National Security forum which was hosted by Shanghai Institute for International Studies; and the UNICRI Centre for AI and Robotics.
Ibaraki has been the recipient of a Microsoft MVP award for 13 years in a row since 2006
In December 2018, Ibaraki was invited by YPO to share his insights about business and investments with respect to the Fourth Industrial Revolution at YPO Edge 2019.