The AI Literacy Project: What is AI and Why Are We Afraid of It?

AI Literacy: Decoding The Missing Piece in the Technology Revolution Six years ago, Miriam Vogel attended the Davos Economic Forum and listened to a repeated yet bold prediction: AI would solve the world’s greatest challenges. At the time, it was a novel idea—a blend of optimism and ambition that captured the imagination. Fast forward to […]

The NAIRR Report: A Vision for Democratizing AI Research and Innovation

Ellie Sakhaee, PhD, MBA, EqualAI Fellow & Jim Wiley, Legal and Research Director, EqualAI Mar 14, 2023 Recent advances in AI, such as the powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) overtaking the headlines, are enhancing our efficiency and capturing our imaginations, but they are highly resource intensive to train. Due to the large computational lift required for […]

NIST will cultivate trust in AI by developing a framework for AI risk management (AI RMF)

Ellie Sakhaee, PhD, MBA, EqualAI Fellow Aug 10, 2022 Image by DALL-E mini, generated for “AI Risk Management Framework” Despite their astonishing capabilities, today’s AI systems come with various societal risks, such as discriminatory outputs and privacy violations. Minimizing such risks can, therefore, lead to AI systems that are better aligned with societal values, hence, more […]