Events and sessions

Irresponsible AI

• Article Irresponsible AI: big tech's influence on AI research and associated impacts - by Mila friends

Data Feminism for AI

• Article Data Feminism for AI

Invited speakers: Rashid Mushkani and Hugo Berard, The Right to AI

• Article Position: The Right to AI

Military AI research funding

• Article Basic research, lethal effects: Military AI research funding as enlistment

Invited speaker: Paul Schütze, The Problem of Sustainable AI

• Article The problem of sustainable aI: A critical assessment of an emerging phenomenon

Reclaiming Epistemic Diversity

• Essay Reclaiming epistemic diversity: between community struggles and corporate capture

AI, capitalism and big tech

• Article Dismantling AI capitalism: the commons as an alternative to the power concentration of Big Tech
• Article The steep cost of capture

The role of scientists in climate action

• Article How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature

The impact of AI on artists

• Article AI art and its impact on artists

Human rights in Palestine and Canada’s implication

• Report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide
• Report Exposing Canadian military exports to Israel

Military Funds, Moral Demands

• Article Military Funds, Moral Demands, Personal Responsibilities of the Individual Scientist

Responsible AI licenses

• Website Responsible AI Licenses (RAIL)
• FAccT 2022 paper Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI
• arXiv paper On the Standardization of Behavioral Use Clauses and Their Adoption for Responsible Licensing of AI
• Blog post Responsible AI licenses: a practical tool for implementing the OECD Principles for Trustworthy AI
• Slides Presentation by Marwa El Halabi

Exploring roles for technology in radical theories of change

This is a special session because instead of hosting a discussion at Mila, we invite all participants to attend the workshop organised by some of our friends at The Great Transition Conference.

• Special talk Exploring roles for technology in radical theories of change

The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research

• Article The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research

Introduction of the Critical Science Reading Group & Decolonial AI

• Article Decolonial AI: Decolonial theory as sociotechnical foresight in artificial intelligence

Montreal Responsible AI Declaration

This is a special session with Marc-Antoine Dilhac, lead author of Montreal Responsible AI Declaration, as guest speaker.

• Declaration Montreal Responsible AI Declaration

Diplomatic Process on Autonomous Weapons Systems, Challenges, and Opportunities

This is a special session with two guest speakers, Wanda Muñoz and Gisela Lujan Andrade.

• Report Autonomous weapons and deepfakes: the risks of the ongoing weaponization of ai and the urgent need for regulation

Deep Fakes in the Military

• Article Do deepfake videos undermine our epistemic trust? A thematic analysis of tweets that discuss deepfakes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Media article AI: Voice cloning tech emerges in Sudan civil war
• Media article Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead

AI-Assisted Targeting in the Military

• Media article U.S. Deploys AI-Assisted Targeting
• Media article ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
• Media article ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
• Media article Ukraine’s Homegrown Drones

UN’s perspective on AI militarisation and its implications in the world

• UN Report Artificial Intelligence Beyond Weapons: Application and Impact of AI in the Military Domain

Tech enabled systematic violation of human rights in the Middle East

• Video panel discussion NoTechForApartheid
• Blog post NoTechForApartheid, Timnit Gebru