Latino Donor Collaborative’s Post

When it comes to AI, “we (Latinos) need to be at the table.” - Dr. José Morey mentioned during the insightful virtual panel discussion hosted by the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC) yesterday titled “Riding the AI Wave: Opportunities in Today's Transformative Landscape.” The panel kicked off with Guillermo Diaz Jr explaining that Latinos are the “growth engine of the U.S.”, which is why it’s imperative that we are part of shaping the AI industry. #AI has inherent biases based on the data it’s trained on and while models continue to improve, Ana Valdez stressed why it's important that we, Latinos, help contribute relevant cultural data to ensure accuracy and representative results. A personal highlight was when Marcelo De Santis explained that due to the rise of generative AI and its potential negative influence on news, there is an opportunity and demand for new media companies that reflect our diverse stories. Given that my mission with the Minority Majority newsletter is to help people stay informed on the business, culture, and social impact of US Latinos–it’s reassuring to hear that there is a growing need for this work. The consensus among the panelists was clear: while AI presents challenges, it also offers unprecedented opportunities for growth and representation in industries where Latinos have historically been underrepresented. This event was the third in a series of nine seminars the LDC is planning on AI. I encourage everyone interested in shaping the future of AI and expanding its impact within our community to join future sessions!

🖥️ Want to explore cutting-edge developments in #3D, #AI, and #DigitalHeritage? Join us at the #HeritageHorizons Project Week by Europeana (November 25-29, online) for insights into the innovations shaping the common European #DataSpace for #CulturalHeritage. 🗣 Meet professionals, learn from experts, and get inspired by collaborative projects. 🎯 Our innovative #debias project will be showcased alongside a myriad of other cutting-edge initiatives! DE-BIAS improves inclusion in metadata by making biases visible, helping users understand the original context of words, and how they're perceived today. It creates a multilingual vocabulary with marginalized communities, researchers, and cultural heritage experts, focusing on migration, colonial history, gender, and ethnicity. --> Register here and now 👉 https://bit.ly/3XIZQjn

🧠🤝 AI Mediation: The Habermas Experiment Key findings: -80% of Americans see deep value divides -AI mediator beats humans (56% vs 44%) -Excludes highly charged topics -Two-model system: Generate & Reward -It's like teaching machines to be diplomats! 🤖🕊️ Why this matters: -Tests rational discussion theory -Bridges communication gaps -Finds hidden common ground -Shows AI's diplomatic potential -Highlights system limitations Critical insights: -Works best on moderate issues -Skips identity-based conflicts -Can't solve deep value divides -Risks political weaponization https://lnkd.in/guwwtmiV

🌟 Exciting News from the National Science Foundation! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce the launch of new awards by the National Science Foundation aimed at fostering a diverse and inclusive Artificial Intelligence research community. This initiative, designed to enrich AI research through a blend of varied perspectives, seeks to overcome the limitations of homogenous development teams by integrating inclusivity at the core of AI advancements. By incorporating a wide array of viewpoints, we can significantly improve both the performance and innovation of AI technologies, ensuring they are more reflective of and applicable to global market demographics. While blending different perspectives presents its challenges, it is also a vital step towards developing more robust and adaptive AI systems. Let's celebrate this move towards a more diverse and dynamic future in AI research and development! For more details on this initiative, visit the National Science Foundation at nsf.gov. #AI #Inclusion #DiversityInTech #NationalScienceFoundation #Innovation #Technology 🔗 [nsf.gov]

Language and #AI in South America. The third chapter of the Imminent Unconferences. 1️⃣ The “vanilla” Spanish effect – and why we should care about it.   2️⃣ The AI role in #education – from helping people with disabilities to training a generation of tech-focused localizers. 3️⃣ The role of #government in AI development & regulation – and the social media social impact. 4️⃣ AI & #indigenous languages: opportunities & risks – what does it mean to own a language? These are just the snapshots of 4 topics freely chosen by the Imminent Unconference participants to delve deeper into Latin America's peculiarities and innovations. If you want to know more, don’t miss this article where we have written the main takeaways of the conversation we carried on in Punta del Este: https://lnkd.in/dzVwzw-Z

"Queerness and queer people face an uncertain future in the face of ever more widely deployed and invasive artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies have caused numerous harms to queer people, including privacy violations, censoring and downranking queer content, exposing queer people and spaces to harassment by making them hypervisible, deadnaming and outing queer people. More broadly, they have violated core tenets of queerness by classifying and controlling queer identities. In response to this, the queer community in AI has organized Queer in AI, a global, decentralized, volunteer-run grassroots organization that employs intersectional and community-led participatory design to build an inclusive and equitable AI future. In this paper, we present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design in AI. We examine how participatory design and intersectional tenets started and shaped this community’s programs over the years. We discuss different challenges that emerged in the process, look at ways this organization has fallen short of operationalizing participatory and intersectional principles, and then assess the organization’s impact. Queer in AI provides important lessons and insights for practitioners and theorists of participatory methods broadly through its rejection of hierarchy in favor of decentralization, success at building aid and programs by and for the queer community, and effort to change actors and institutions outside of the queer community. Finally, we theorize how communities like Queer in AI contribute to the participatory design in AI more broadly by fostering cultures of participation in AI, welcoming and empowering marginalized participants, critiquing poor or exploitative participatory practices, and bringing participation to institutions outside of individual research projects. Queer in AI’s work serves as a case study of grassroots activism and participatory methods within AI, demonstrating the potential of community-led participatory methods and intersectional praxis, while also providing challenges, case studies, and nuanced insights to researchers developing and using participatory methods." #Queer #AI #design #justice #harm #ethics #inclusion https://lnkd.in/e6yZ8kZp

According to UNCTAD's Creative Economy Outlook 2024, creative industries are seeing a shift in how creative work is developed and consumed. Leveraging digitalisation and AI, creative work, for example the art scene in African has become more cost-efficient, reaching a wider audience, with deeper level of transparency. This new reality entails essential policy challenges and responses in the creative economy. We explore case studies from various countries in Africa where impacts of AI are being seen across value chain. Our newsletter talking about Art, Africa and AI goes out later this week. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/ePXkd28M #AI #creativeeconomy #africanart UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) The Museum of Modern Art

It was a privilege to participate in Translated's 3rd Imminent Unconference in Punta del Este, Uruguay on 15-17 February 2024. Focusing on language and #AI in South America, topics explored included: - Ultralocalization and the variations of Spanish in South America, especially in industries like mass #media and #ecommerce - How AI can enhance #education and is it possible to modify the curricula of translation majors to prepare a generation of tech-focused localizers - What role #government should play in the development of AI and #language - How to include AI in the over 580 indigenous languages of South America Read Imminent's full report here: https://lnkd.in/enBTkMKj #indigenouslanguages #mt #humanitheloop

The Imminent Unconference in Uruguay on languages and humans/AI and the challanges for South America.

Can AI help us get along? Fascinating article in Ars Technica https://lnkd.in/eFT-6SpW It describes a study by Google DeepMind published in Science Magazine where the AI did better than human mediators in achieving (some) consensus. Social media has been known to stoke divisions and it is exciting that this application of technology has the potential to bring people together. Still lots more work to be done but a promising direction. Full study here: https://lnkd.in/eefpU6x7