Alex Hanna, DAIR's director of research explores AI's impact on communities

Hanna is simply a erstwhile Google AI ethicist who worked alongside Timnit Gebru, who was fired from nan tech elephantine aft voicing concerns astir its earthy connection processing tools. Hanna now oversees investigation astatine Gebru's Distributed AI Research Institute. Her activity centers connected communities astir affected by AI. "A near-term AI dystopia is 1 successful which there's not a masterful AI that takes complete nan world — that's bullshit — it's a world successful which location are AI devices which are promised to do XYZ and that galore employers person efficaciously bought into only to laic disconnected full-time workers and prosecute them backmost astatine a calcualized rate," Hanna told Business Insider. "So it increases that gigification and casualization of work." She's penning a book, "The AI Con," pinch nan University of Washington linguistics professor Emily Bender examining what they spot arsenic nan harms posed by AI and nan myths astir what it tin and cannot do.

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