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Our latest report diagnoses concentration of power in the tech industry as a pressing challenge – and points the path forward to seize this moment of change.

Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI provides analyses, concepts and strategies for responding to the transformations of AI systems on culture and society.

How designers should embrace shaping AI models.

Emily Tucker, Executive Director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, on tech, vocabulary and power.

Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI provides analyses, concepts and strategies for responding to the transformations of AI systems on culture and society.

Master Programmes in Fine Arts, Interior Architecture and Design

We are launching a "Roadmap to Democratic AI" outlining paths towards greater collective stewardship and better distribution of AI's benefits. Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes dece

Search results that reflect historic inequities can amplify stereotypes and perpetuate under-representation. Carefully measuring diversity in data sets can help.

Mapping the water footprint of AI.

We look for playfulness as AI golems track mud everywhere, white people get upset for the wrong reasons, and companies attempt to further abdicate responsibility by blaming it on the AI chatbot.

by Jennifer Walshe

In this article, Nadia takes a closer look at and debunks a few popular participation practices.

“Chair” and “ball” were among little AI’s first words

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora is being hyped as a game-changer by an industry at a crossroads. This time we should know better

Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform—an internet where platforms such as Twitch, Twitter, and Roblox were owned by their streamers, users, and creators. What if small fishing

Meaningful human oversight over AI requires a critical look at the temporal dynamics of how AI enters our lives. I argue that ideologies such as “move fast and break things” do just that - move fast and break things. Instead, what if we could slow down and contribute to crafting empowering futures?

Video, slides, and transcript from my talk on the challenges of designing with language models

10/22/20 - Recently, there have been increasing calls for computer science curricula to complement existing technical training with topics re...

A fundamental design principle for techno optimists. How we need to move towards friction in digital culture. By Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters

Intentionally poisoning someone else is never morally right. But if someone in the office keeps swiping your lunch, wouldn't you resort to petty Like putting hot sauce in your lunch to deter stealing, Nightshade poisons data used for AI training, giving artists a way to fight back against scraping without consent.

In the world of generated imagery, you’re either drop-dead gorgeous or a wrinkled, bug-eyed freak.

I know, I know, the title of this post is atrociously click-baity. But if we allow Big Tech to get away with making outrageous claims about how their technology is saving humanity and release software that hallucinates, I hope you can forgive me for using the same tactic to bring up an important topic: the environmental impact of Large Language Models like ChatGPT.