Taraaz works on human rights impact assessments of AI-enabled products with a particular focus on issues affecting marginalized groups such as refugees, gender and sexual minorities, religious minorities, and human rights defenders. Some of the org's work includes researching data driven surveillance tools in the context of migration, and analyzing the discriminatory and flawed outcomes of automated asylum adjudication tools. Other issues it tackles include multilingual inconsistency in AI systems and their impacts on linguistic diversity and language hegemony.
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Randi Williams
Dr. Randi Williams is an educator, tinkerer, and change agent at the forefront of AI and education. She earned her Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in 2024. As Program Manager at Algorithmic Justice League, her work equips researchers, policymakers, and everyday changemakers to responsibly use AI for positive social change.
Human Rights Racial Justice ActorAlgorithmic Justice League
Algorithmic Justice League works to unmask AI harms and biases, especially racial bias, discrimination, hate speech, and facial recognition technology.
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Randi Williams
Dr. Randi Williams is an educator, tinkerer, and change agent at the forefront of AI and education. She earned her Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in 2024. As Program Manager at Algorithmic Justice League, her work equips researchers, policymakers, and everyday changemakers to responsibly use AI for positive social change.
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Data center growth in Virginia is causing a huge spike in energy demand, which is currently being met by huge fracked gas generation build-out in Virginia and the Southeast United States. Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) — the first grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. — is working to educate Virginians on data center issues and CCAN Action Fund is working to advance common sense policies to ensure data center energy demand is met with clean energy.
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