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A Gender Perspective on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Tech-Sector: Position Paper for the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue in Mexico

Sarah Spitz, Theresa Züger, Katharina Mosene

Berlin: Women in Tech; Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2023), 9 pp.

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Bridging the AI Language Gap in Africa and Beyond

Kira Schacht

Deutsche Welle (2023)

"AI tools, from ChatGPT to Google Translate, are useless to billions of people in the Global South who don't work in western languages. Researchers and startups from Africa and other parts of the world are changing that." (Introduction)

The Promises and Perils of Applying Artificial Intelligence for Social Good in Entrepreneurship

Nicole Siebold, Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Georg von Richthofen

Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2022), 30 pp.

Economies of virtue: The circulation of 'ethics' in AI

Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, Monique Mann (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2022), 171 pp.

Inteligencia Artificial y participación en América Latina: Las estrategias nacionales de IA

Laura Hernández, María Paz Canales, Michel de Souza

Derechos Digitales (2022), 55 pp.

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Is AI Good for the Planet?

Benedetta Brevini

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2022), vii, 128 pp.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that depletes scarce resources and by re ... more

The AI Ethics Playbook: Implementing Ethical Principles Into Everyday Business

GSMA (2022), 37 pp.

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Pivots, Perseverances & Pleasures

Favour Borokini, Bonnita Nyamwire, Neema Iyer, Meital Kupfer

Pollicy (2022), iii, 26 pp.

"This is the final report in Pollicy's three-part series on African Women in AI. Launched in 2021, this project frames analysis of the state of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa through a gender lens by exploring the impact of AI on women. This project emerged out of the need to fill the visibl ... more

Towards a Normative Perspective on Journalistic AI: Embracing the Messy Reality of Normative Ideals

Natali Helberger, Max van Drunen, Judith Moeller, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Sarah Eskens

Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 10 (2022), pp. 1605-1626

"Few would disagree that AI systems and applications need to be “responsible,” but what is “responsible” and how to answer that question? Answering that question requires a normative perspective on the role of journalistic AI and the values it shall serve. Such a perspective needs to be grou ... more

Encoded Biases & Future Imaginaries

Favour Borokini, Bonnita Nyamwire, Garnett Achieng, Neema Iyer

Kampala: Pollicy (2022), iv, 37 pp.

"This paper is the second in a series of three papers that explore the relationship between women in Africa today and Artificial Intelligence. In it, the authors explore the threats and benefits Artificial Intelligence brings to African women in different sectors; what it means to be an African woma ... more

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Designing a Rights-Based Global Index on Responsible AI

Rachel Adams

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.

"As we move forward in deepening our collective understanding of how AI is reshaping our societies, and what policy models are required to best manage its effects in service of human and planetary wellbeing, information is needed on the global state of implementation of the UNESCO principles and the ... more

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Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2022
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Daniel Zhang, Nestor Maslej, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Etchemendy, Terah Lyons et al.

AI Index Steering Committee; Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI Stanford University (2022), 229 pp.

"The fifth edition of the AI Index Report includes data from a broad set of academic, private, and nonprofit organizations as well as more self-collected data and original analysis than any previous editions, including an expanded technical performance chapter, a new survey of robotics researchers a ... more

Künstliche Intelligenz: So lässt sie sich nachhaltiger gestalten

Berlin: Algorithm Watch; Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (iöw); DAI-Labor (2022), 58 pp.

"Eine Zahl taucht immer wieder in der Diskussion zur Nachhaltigkeit von KI auf: Die Emissionen, die in der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsphase großer Sprachmodelle anfallen, entsprechen den Emissionen von fünf Autos während ihrer gesamten Laufzeit. Diese Zahl stammt aus einer wegweisenden Analyse v ... more

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Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence

Elena Esposito

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xiv, 184 pp.

"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we h ... more

Mapping the Public Voice for Development: Natural Language Processing of Social Media Text Data

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), xi, 114 pp.

"This report aims to introduce techniques and procedures of NLP (Natural Language Processing), the computational preparation and analysis of text data, to map the public voice and aid development. First, the report introduces essential concepts of communication and elaborates on the theoretical foun ... more

Digital Humanism: For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age

Julian Nida-Rümelin, Nathalie Weidenfeld

Cham: Springer (2022), ix, 127 pp.

"This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formula ... more

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Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation: State-Aligned Information Operations and the Distortion of the Public Sphere

Courtney Radsch

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2022), 28 pp.

"In light of the role played by state-aligned actors, the private sector and lawmakers in countries with strong democratic institutions should adopt policies that mitigate the ability of state actors to manipulate AI and weaponize communication platforms. Efforts to combat disinformation must recogn ... more

AI Ethics and Higher Education: Good Practice and Guidance for Educators, Learners, and Institutions

Erin Green, Divya Singh, Roland Chia (eds.)

Geneva: Globethics.net (2022), 318 pp.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is exerting unprecedented pressure on the global higher educational landscape in transforming recruitment processes, subverting traditional pedagogy, and creating new research and institutional opportunities. These technologies require contextual and global ethical anal ... more

Republic of Ghana National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: 2023 - 2033

Ministry of Communications and Digitalization (2022), 123 pp.