research(ers) in critical ai

critical ai scholars

Emily M. Bender
Ruha Benjamin
Abeba Birhane
Meredith Broussard
Joy Buolamwini
Joanna Bryson
Kate Crawford studies the material impact of AI systems
Timnit Gebru
Alex Hanna
Sasha Luccioni studies AI and its climate impact @ HuggingFace
Milagros Miceli focuses on conditions and power dynamics in data work behind machine learning systems
Margaret Mitchell
Safiya U. Noble
Beth Singler studies the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of robotics and AIS
Sahana Udupa - media anthropologist and founder of the Center for Digital Dignity
Shannon Vallor
Aimee van Wynsberghe focuses on AI ethics, Sustainable AI frameworks and policies
Shoshana Zuboff

research centers & projects

Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and policy research on AI

Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE, Bonn), led by Aimee van Wynsberghe, focuses on developing research and policy guidelines for the green, proportionate and sustainable development and use of AI

Knowing Machines a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of machine learning systems. Led by Kate Crawford

Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power (Mellon Sawyer sminar at the University of Cambridge that took place from May 2020 to December 2021)

Center for Digital Dignity