@aial.ie's @hellinanigatu.bsky.social reflects on African AI sovereignty, the current AI landscape, as well as the conference itself following her participation in the 2026 Deep Learning Indaba. #DLI2026 Read about it here: aial.ie/blog/worksho...

👉 Queremos una simplificación real sin debilitar los derechos de las personas consumidoras. 🔗Toda la info de la iniciativa: killthecookiebanner.eu @beuc.eu @noyb.eu @eff.org @checkmyads.org @aial.ie @forbrukerradet.bsky.social, @openrightsgroup.org

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We are proud to share that our lab member Dr Hellina Hailu Nigatu has received the Wangari Maathai Impact Award from @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social The award recognises impactful work driving positive change in AI and ML across Africa. A Huge Congratulations to Dr Nigatu! 🎉

Dr Hellina Hailu Nigatu (PhD), a postdoc at the @aial.ie in ADAPT at @tcddublin.bsky.social, has received the 2026 Wangari Maathai Impact Award at the Deep Learning Indaba conference in Lagos, Nigeria. Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve... @researchireland.ie

Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."

Olivia Rodrigo's festival is uniting women and girls behind nonprofits promoting their well-being

Few superstars are better suited to bridge the gap between Gen Z and nonprofits, which have struggled to build relationships with younger donors.

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do we know of any universities/higher ed institutions that have explicitly stated resistance/refusal of genai as their official policy

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Dr Emily Sullivan, Co-Director of the CTMF, discusses how the Centre for Technomoral Futures is helping ensure AI serves society, protects human values and creates futures worth wanting in a feature for Enlightened. You can read it here 👉 edin.ac/4bAfdm4

Building AI futures worth wanting — Centre for Technomoral Futures

Dr Emily Sullivan discusses how the Centre for Technomoral Futures is helping ensure AI serves society, protects human values and creates futures worth wanting. This feature originally appeared in En...

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‘Creating technomoral futures means striving for futures where technology is designed and used in ways that improve human flourishing, rather than in ways that eat away at human rights, contribute to climate collapse or create greater social exclusion.’ – Dr Emily Sullivan, CTMF Co-Director

We are excited to formally welcome two new outstanding postdoctoral researchers to our lab: Dr @hellinanigatu.bsky.social and Dr Sananda Sahoo aial.ie/people/ 1/

please share any tools, libraries, or other resources that you find helpful for numerous research tasks

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?

TODAY! Tune in to the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream to hear @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social and @savasavasava.myatproto.social discuss how “responsible use” of LLMs isn’t a thing & AI “harm reduction” frameworks in edtech. July 6, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute

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

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#FAccT2026 has been a great experience of leaning from, connect with, and socialising with the FAccT community. Huge thanks to the organising committee! #FAccT26

AIAL @ #FAccT2026

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

we are presenting our paper "Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services" now. join us #FAccT2026 programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...

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Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

Dick Blankvoort presents work that looks into model providers obligation to provide a public summary of training data for GPAI models under the EU AI Act: tldr small open source model providers are following rules while there's no information to be found on large providers such as openai #FAccT2026

For our final episode of Computer Says Kill, @alixdunn.com sat down with @docmattmoudi.bsky.social from @amnesty.org and @marwasf.bsky.social from @accessnow.org to talk about our path out of AI in warfare.

Computer Says Kill: How To Say No w/ Matt Mahmoudi and Marwa Fatafta

How do we stand up against the human rights violations that exist in the gruesome relationship between the business of AI and war?

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Will you be at FAccT next week? Come hang out with us & learn about our work. We’ll discuss pathways to meaningful accountability, theories of change, & what brings us joy along the way over iconic bagels & TimBits in the park Sat June 27th, 18:00 - 20:00, Jeanne-Mance Park aial.ie/news/facct20...

The CCMI bureau visited the AI Accountability Lab research group at Trinity College Dublin, which works on the risks and societal impacts of AI systems 🤝 We thank @abeba.blacksky.app and the @adaptcentre.bsky.social team for their presentation, which was highly insightful and provocative 🖥️

AI-accelerated warfare must stop! Together with @amnesty.org and +200 experts and civil society organizations, we are calling on governments and tech companies to ensure AI does not become a tool for accelerating death and destruction. Read our statement: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

"AIAL, one of the few independent sources of research into AI’s societal risks, conducts testing that is a model for evaluating systems before they are released to the public." www.macfound.org/press/grante...

Assessing AI’s Service to Humanity

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On Sat a well attended screening of doc GHOST IN THE MACHINE examined the roots of #AI offering audiences a critical look at the forces that have shaped the tech's development. Followed by an engaging Q&A w/ @abeba.blacksky.app @aial.ie & host @elaineburke.bsky.social @fortechssakepod.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr @abeba.blacksky.app on being elected to the AI Act Advisory Forum! Abeba is director of the @aial.ie of @tcddublin.bsky.social & ADAPT. Learn more about the lab: aial.ie

ICYMI: why it's a bad idea for the UK government to give US tech giant Palantir a role at the heart of the state - and why ministers need to take the chance to kick them out of the NHS: www.lbc.co.uk/article/pala...

A firm obsessed with dominance like Palantir shouldn’t be at the centre of our state | LBC

Should we really be handing more and more parts of our public services to Big Tech firms, whose leaders are not particularly keen on democracy? writes Donald Campbell

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SCREENING SAT JUNE 6th - Ghost in the Machine w/ Q&A with Dr. @abeba.blacksky.app, Director of @aial.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social and chaired by @elaineburke.bsky.social host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social TICKETS: ifi.ie/film/ghost-i...

so sorry to be missing #EdTech26 (hello to all!) but grateful to @iltasky.bsky.social for livestreaming keynotes ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ this morning's keynote on AI & Education by @abeba.blacksky.app (@aial.ie) was outstanding: core values of education (love, trust, empathy, care) cannot be datafied

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

In our conclusion, we stress that industry capture is not just an urgent academic concern but a pressing real-world issue with global consequences. While, gegulators may engage with industry, governance must ultimately protect the public interest, not corporate power. 11/

Civil society orgs and investigative journalists are doing indispensable work: promoting counter narratives and resistance, exposing lobbying and deregulation, documenting harms, advancing strategic litigation... Support them. Fund them. Amplify their work. 10/

We survey and highlight transferable lessons from adjacent movements, namely Big Oil, Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. We advocate for supporting grassroots groups, CSOs and independent academics that are doing amazing work to hold Big AI and regulators accountable and to ensure the rule of law. 9/