Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network

🌟 Applications Closing Soon! 🌟

Offering up to $5,000 for projects exploring how AI connects to culture, history, social justice and more.

Last year’s projects included Generating Queer Histories, using AI to reimagine archival materials with care, critique, and creativity.

aiai.network/grants/

⏳ Deadline in 10 days!
Seed Grants (up to $5,000) for new projects and professional development activities that help expand the #AIAINetwork.
Apply by 1 December: aiai.network/grants

OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says MUNICH (Reuters) -OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing lyrics from songs by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others,​ a court ruled on Tuesday, in a clos...

“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”

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📬 The AIAI November Issue is out now!

We’re sharing insights and opportunities across the aiai.network — featuring Salwa Hoque’s note on AI and the law, and a fascinating recap of Vauhini Vara’s discussion on generative AI in creative work.
🚨 Deadline for the Seed Grants has been extended to Dec 1.

🚀 Our 2025 seed grant call is open!
We’re excited to grow the #AIAINetwork by supporting new projects and collaborations in AI × humanities, AI × culture or AI × City with an Atlanta focus, and professional development funding for community events, workshops and more.

👉Info: www.aiai.network/grants

Black and gray poster for talk by Kauna Malgwi on the hidden cost of AI.

For those in Atlanta, TIME 100 in AI honoree and mental health activist Kauna Malgwi will be gracing us with her presence at Georgia Tech tomorrow as part of our @aiainetwork.bsky.social Distinguished Speaker Series / IPaT Brown Bag crossover event. Info here: research.gatech.edu/ipat/fall-20...

They should make more jobs for people who want to stop the harms of technology instead of jobs for causing them

She now fights, along with other African tech workers, for the right to fair wages, safer working conditions, and trauma-informed mental health care.

Lunch will be provided.

Malgwi is a clinical psychologist, trauma survivor, and advocate for the mental health and rights of digital workers, whose journey began when she worked as a Facebook content moderator, where she was constantly exposed to graphic and violent content.

Are you interested in AI’s hidden costs especially from the point of view of African content moderators?

Join next week Friday at Emory PAIS 561 at 11:30 am for a student open discussion with Time100AI and BBC100 women honoree Kauna Malgwi.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers We align the aligners

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

"Today, AI advocates do not merely assume automation is necessary; they aggressively proselytize their faith, thereby paving the way for techno-fascism."

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

On the contrary, we should be doing the exact opposite:

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6/n

This whole article is fabulously smart, but this line, in particular, is its crowning glory.

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

🍂 AIAI October Issue is out now!
We’re excited to share what’s been growing across the #AIAINetwork — including Ben Miller’s opening reflection, new member features, Seed Grant opportunities, and a roundup of events happening in Atlanta + beyond.

📪 Read Newsletter #17 aiai.network/newsletter

Please join us on Wed, Oct 29 at Emory University for our annual #AIAINetwork 🍂Fall Kickoff Event🍂
Featuring a conversation with Drs. Carl DiSalvo, Lauren Klein, Brandeis Marshall, and Dan Sinykin, and a roundtable with our 2024–25 Seed Grant Awardees moderated by Dr. André Brock.
See you there!

With both crypto and AI, there are humans involved at every level of the stack. Narratives of automation make it seem like the process is merely mechanical, but if there are humans involved, there are points for regulatory intervention (and in this case, humans who may need legal protections)

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking

But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives

*For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

I wrote a thing for the AIAI Network monthly newsletter

"The American Technical Object"

https://mailchi.mp/4770fc63939e/aiai-february-newsletter-12746910?e=5150f14014
(Edited 11:25 AM via @skeetsapp.com)

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/vauhini-va...

We are hosting @vauhinivara.bsky.social at Emory on Thursday Oct 16 for the talk, “If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?” Vara was a Pulitzer finalist for fiction in 2023. Her latest, Searches, investigates what is at stake for writing with the rise of AI.

@aiainetwork.bsky.social is hosting Vauhini Vara at Emory on Thursday Oct 16 for the talk, “If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?” Vara was a Pulitzer finalist for fiction in 2023. Her latest, Searches, investigates what is at stake for writing with the rise of AI www.eventbrite.com/e/vauhini-va...

Learn more about Snigdha and her work: www.aiai.network/snigdha/

Meet Snigdha 👋
Snigdha is a PhD candidate in Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University. At #AIAINetwork, she serves as our Curriculum Specialist, supporting the development of a repository that showcases the teachings of Network members across Atlanta.

Learn more about Dez and their work: www.aiai.network/dez-miller/

Meet Dez Miller 👋
Dez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University. They work at the intersection of digital humanities, urban studies, and environmental literary studies, exploring how urban water infrastructures shape and are shaped by cultural narratives.

Meet Salwa Hoque 👋 Salwa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the #AIAINetwork. She works at the intersection of law and technology, specializing in legal pluralism, databases, automation, and women’s rights.

Learn more about Salwa and her work: www.aiai.network/salwa-hoque/

Excited to share my peer-reviewed article: “Rethinking Marriage: Blurring the ‘Legal’ and the ‘Social’” @lsijournal.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
This article examines alternate legal reasoning to reimagine law and evidentiary protocols from the ground-up.
doi.org/10.1017/lsi....

Meet Diana Duarte 👋 Through #AIAINetwork's AI and Social Movements project, Diana explores the applications and limitations of AI in studying historical and contemporary movements.
🔗https://www.aiai.network/dianaduarte/