OpinionFebruary 1, 2024
An Alliance Calling For More Open AI Should Heed Their Own Call
The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their practices
Stories by Wai Chee Dimock
Wai Chee Dimock writes about public health, climate change and Indigenous communities, focusing on the symbiotic relation between humans and nonhumans. She taught at Yale for many years and is now at Harvard's Center for the Environment, working on a new book, Microbes and AI: Surviving Pandemics and Climate Change with Nonhuman Intelligence. Her most recent book is Weak Planet (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
OpinionAugust 17, 2022
AI Can Help Indigenous People Protect Biodiversity
Loss of wild species has reached a crisis level. Artificial intelligence can help but only if Indigenous partners have secure land rights
OpinionApril 5, 2022
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI
To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic