
OpinionAugust 12, 2023
AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks
Alex Hanna is director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. She focuses on the labor building the data underlying AI systems and how these data exacerbate existing racial, gender and class inequality.

AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks

Actually, We Should Not All Use They/Them Pronouns
A response to a recent Scientific American essay