Documents obtained by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay Sama, an American outsourcing firm, $12.50 an hour per Kenyan worker - far higher than the $2 an hour workers say they got. Sama says it pays a fair wage for the region.

I'm really impressed to see 60 Minutes covering the harms Kenyan data workers experience from AI development. However, I find it quite shameful that data outsourcing companies repeatedly attempt to use "fair wages" as justification for worker traumatization.

⭐️ Lesson learned during Thanksgiving Day🙏 This will be a long thread. Brace yourself! 🧵 🤔Which is more important: quality or quantity? - Recently, an ARR reviewer criticized our paper for including only three languages, despite each dataset costing us over $100 due to

Do you speak Tamil and research/have thoughts on social media and content moderation? Continuing our work on non-English content moderation, we're looking at users' experiences online and Tamil is moderated online. Get in touch: [email protected] cdt.org/insights/inves…

We look forward to seeing you at NeurIPS! Join us tomorrow for our 8th Annual Workshop on “AI Regulation & Fairness in the Generative AI Era” and Wednesday for our reception. We're thrilled to share this programming with you and provide a space for networking and discussion!

Congratulations to @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) for being awarded the 2025 Miles Conrad Awardee! "The award recognizes her critical work on the dangers of biases in AI as the information community grapples with ethics and rapidly advancing technologies." niso.plus/2024/12/dr-tim…

Join us in teaching at JamCoders & apply to be a TA. ➡️Apply @ apply.jamcoders.org.jm/apply/ ➡️About JamCoders: jamcoders.org.jm JamCoders is a free annual summer camp on algorithms & programming for high school students in Kingston, Jamaica.

CDT’s latest report, “Content moderation in Kiswahili,” led by Mona Elswah explores how platforms like TikTok, Meta, and JamiiForums navigate the complexities of moderating Kiswahili content. cdt.org/insights/moder…

We won best paper 😊😊

It costs $89-$199 for a poster printing Estimated $260.000-$597.000 for ~3k posters (main conference) $0.5M dollars go to the trash bin right after 3 hours 😭 I feel sad, is there any more sustainable way to reduce this waste?? 🥹 #NeurIPS2024 #NeurIPS

📌 Starting the panel “Data and AI Governance from the Global Majority” #IGF2024 📆 The session will be moderated by Luca Belli (Luca Belli) and Regina Filipová Fuchsová, [...]

I will be giving a teaser of our essay with Zeerak (زیرک ظلعت) is on Zeerak@ mastodon|bsky in a few minutes!

Congratulations to the winners of our Best Paper and Poster Awards at NeurIPS, Hellina Hailu Nigatu and Paulina B. Mensah! We’re thrilled to highlight research that explores the online and healthcare potentials of AI.

Looking forward to giving this talk!!

Starting in about 7 mins!

Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼 We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at University of Rwanda. 🌍✨ As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing