AI Accountability Lab

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Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability

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This: “The environmental costs, labour exploitation, data extraction, concentration of power, and normalisation of surveillance underlying the technology make it difficult, if not impossible, to meaningfully operationalise and practice “ethical” and “responsible” use.”

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Dr Nigatu was recognised for her work investigating gender bias in machine translation for three low-resourced Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Tigrinya and Afan Oromo. The project supported seven Ethiopian female students as paid researchers, with funding, compute access and mentorship.

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We are proud to share that our lab member Dr Hellina Hailu Nigatu has received the Wangari Maathai Impact Award from @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social The award recognises impactful work driving positive change in AI and ML across Africa. A Huge Congratulations to Dr Nigatu! 🎉

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