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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
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AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
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Catch up on the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!

🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🎧 NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast episode 65 - 'Crunching The Numbers' 📈

@emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social talk to journalist @deccamuldowney.bsky.social about how so-called AI tools are infiltrating newsrooms, particularly when it comes to data analysis.

🔗 Below ⬇️
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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POSSIBLE FUTURES WORKSHOP

🗣️ Looking for a fun, hopeful activity to stretch your imaginative muscle?

🌻 If you’re in the Seattle area, @dylnbkr.bsky.social will be hosting a free in person Possible Futures workshop on November 16 @ 2pm PST.

🪴 RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese... to attend.
The cover of the zine, "Possible Futures" written in all caps in black at the top, with a white background. Then there is a blue background for most of the rest of the cover, with sketches of people all over the cover. Left, an excerpt of the zine by Adrienne who is a middle school teacher. There are a bunch of plants and crayons, with the writing." There is as much art as there is science" Right, an excerpt from Margaret Mitchell, AI Researcher, with a bunch of cutouts. One says ";Road to Utopia", another says "Its influence begins in the plastic years". "Always Buy" "More Performance." "Order these now." "With open eyes and open minds, we can see so much more," and there is a picture of a yellow butterfly. Then more writing, "We are fierce curious, strong" "Giving back, climb mountains howl with the wind.""
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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In the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, journalist @reveleth.com joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social to talk about how tech bosses love science fiction novels, but can't seem to understand them!

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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In her Possible Futures entry, Kathleen Siminyu writes about creating an oral archive of her elders' knowledge.

"Dialects carry unique histories, proverbs, and ways of naming the world" she writes.

📖 Read the piece at www.dair-institute.org/blog/tech-fo...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Happy 3rd birthday to the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast! 🎂

To celebrate, @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social recorded a special episode to answer listener questions about the show, & reflect on the past & future of AI hype.

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
October 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Join us now as @alex and @emilymbender celebrate THREE years and 250,000 downloads of The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast! 🎉🎉 🎉
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September 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to our own @milamiceli.bsky.social for being on TIME's 100 list of "innovators, leaders, & thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in" AI.

Mila is recognized for her innovative Data Workers' Inquiry, a worker led investigation of the impact of data work. 🧵
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August 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The belly of surveillance capitalism can only be exposed by following the money to understanding who's complicit in the usage of tech for war crimes, genocides, any other grave injustices etc.
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July 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🔇🔇🔇Join us for an honest conversation with some of the people forging a better digital future. Event will be recorded for those who can't make it.

⏰ Thursday May 30th at 10am PDT/1pm EDT

➡️ Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...

More info on our amazing speakers below🧵
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May 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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For May Day, former content moderator Fasica & our intern Nuredin wrote a short piece imagining a safer future for content moderators.

www.dair-institute.org/blog/imagini...
An abstract illustration of a content moderator, a Black woman, wearing a yellow top and pants, smiling and working on her laptop. She is sitting on a smart phone, and behind her is a writing #Content moderator, and illustrations of various buttons she uses in her work like "Remove."
May 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Join us tomorrow for another Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream with @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social.

Alex & Emily will be joined by @petramolnar.com to discuss border & immigration technologies.

⏰ Monday May 5 @ 12pm PDT/ 3pm EDT/8pm BST/
✴️ www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
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May 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Thank you to Surveillance Watch for tracking ICE contractors, many of whom were involved in surveilling and selling data of student protestors to ICE. Go to www.surveillancewatch.io for more detailed information.
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April 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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🔇🔇🔇 Will you be at the AI Action Summit next week?

➡️ If so, catch our very own Nyalleng Moorosi at the main stage on Tuesday February 11. She will be on a panel discussing sustainable AI systems, bringing calm to the dizzying AI Hype. See the program at www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-po....
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February 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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📣Join @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social for the 1st Mystery AI Hype Theater 3k livestream this year.

⏰12pm pacific.
➡️https://twitch.tv/dair_institute

We'll start 2025 by ridiculing ARC, o3 & all things OpenAI.
Until then, catch up on prior episodes @ dair-institute.org/maiht3k/.
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January 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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We'll still be busting AI hype as we wind down in December. Join @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social in the next iteration of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 this Monday December 9 at 12pm pacific.

Live Stream: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
Past Episodes: www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
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December 4, 2024 at 11:57 PM