The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute

@dairinstitute.bsky.social

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/

@dairinstitute.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:56 PM

AI doomerism isn't sound science, it's a parlor game. Great to see reporting that pushes back and quotes experts like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social.

Coxon and Anthropic "did not respond to a request for comment." 👀 👀 👀
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@dairinstitute.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:26 PM

The website is a project of the Higher Ed Protest Event Dataset (HiPED) Lab — @ellenberrey.bsky.social (University of Toronto), @alexhanna.bsky.social (DAIR), @nathanckim.bsky.social (DAIR, University of Michigan), and Kristen Bass (University of Toronto) — and the HiPED Advisory Collective.

@dairinstitute.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:22 PM

Join us for the launch of our new resource, an archive of 2010s higher ed protest in the U.S. and Canada, designed for campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing.

a white graphic with an image of picketing workers, carrying blue signs that read "on legal strike." Black text reads: A Decade of Mass Campus Protests Website Launch Event, October 20, 2026 9am PT/ 12PM ET

"Join the Distributed AI Research Institute as we launch  our new resource, “A Decade of Mass Campus Protests: An Archive of U.S. and Canadian Higher Ed Activism in the 2010s.”

This new website chronicles campus protest, especially  anti-racist protest, during the turbulent 2010s.

Join us for a panel discussion and site tour.

Register at: bit.ly/decade-of-campus-protest

@dairinstitute.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:32 PM

🎧Today on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream🎧:

@emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social will be chatting to @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine, the authors of Against Tech Oligarchy, about tech industry labor:

Tune in:
Mon, Oct 5, noon Pacific
twitch.tv/dair_institute

@dairinstitute.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:19 PM

In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app Oct 1, 2026, 5:05 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Lovely to see the people from all over the world who have joined us. I see Siri Lanka, South Africa, Germany, US, Argentina at least so far. We are discussing horrific events but I'm glad to have this community around the world commemorating this horrific event with us.

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app Oct 1, 2026, 4:39 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Who is this technology "protecting"? Who is surveilling and who is paying the cost? There is still not enough research about refugees and technology. The research is being discussed at conferences, universities etc. "The human touch" is missing. There are human beings on the other side.

Smart Borders. And other text that is not legible.

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app Oct 1, 2026, 4:28 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Happening now. At our "Lampedusa keeps on happening" event, @meron.bsky.social is telling us the stories of the people who perished. The stories of the human beings behind the statistics.

You can still join us by registering at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Meron, with a photo of an Eritrean woman and her children. With a caption that says "Helen, who died alongside her youngest three children in Lampedusa."

@niyate.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:14 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Thank you for having @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @dairinstitute.bsky.social back on, and for allotting a longer segment to talk through the issues! Ai companies need to be regulated for the harm they're causing NOW, not for imaginary future sci-fi harm

@democracynow.org Oct 1, 2026, 2:50 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

@dairinstitute.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 1:31 PM

VIRTUAL EVENT TODAY: Refugees experience some of the most harmful impacts of AI and surveillance. What would it look like if technology was designed to support them instead?

@mediajustice.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 6:08 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

For folks both in the Bay and national, join us for #OaklandTechWeek on our IG livestream, where we’ll broadcast our main stage convos for #BuildingBeyondBigTech.

We'll broadcast our CA landscape analysis and our "Their Future Vs. Our Future" Panel.
www.instagram.com/mediajustice/

@blueskyeria.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:05 AMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app latests

Surveillance Watch @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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No AI ‘Existential Threat’
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***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable populations, refugees
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@rightlivelihood.org Sep 30, 2026, 4:42 AMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

The 2026 Right Livelihood Award goes to women and women-led organisations challenging entrenched power structures:

🏆 Jalila Haider @jalilahaider.bsky.social
🏆 Rural Women's Assembly
🏆 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association
🏆 Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

rightlivelihood.org/2026-announc...

@bildoperationen.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:14 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

This is really fantastic and more than well-deserved - congratulations, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, you're an inspiration!

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app Sep 30, 2026, 2:04 AMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

@alexhanna.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 10:53 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

On October 3, 2013, 368 people lost their lives in the Lampedusa shipwreck.

This Thursday, join @dairinstitute.bsky.social's "Refugees, Migrants, and AI" project for an event commemorating those who died and asking why Lampedusa keeps happening.

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Flyer for DAIR virtual event on October 1, 2026 from 6-8PM CET. It reads 'Join DAIR as we commemorate the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy and ask, "What would it take for technology to protect people on the move, rather than deepen the risks they already face?"'

It features images of four people: Meron Estefanos, Dr. Selam Kidane, Dr. Omer Shatz, Dr. Hyab Yoahnnes

@dairinstitute.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 8:47 PM

How can we build an organized force for tech justice? Oakland Tech Week is exploring the possibilities.

DAIR's @timnitgebru.blacksky.app will be there in conversation with @parismarx.com and others.

Event is sold out, but visit the OTW website for info on virtual options: urlvanish.com/6fe70bc9

@msoares.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 4:46 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

Ms. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app calls the doomtrolling bluff and practically sends an "OK doomer".

@kerstinsell.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 8:16 PMReposted by @dairinstitute.bsky.social

1/2 I was wondering / confused about the apocalyptic scenarios industry leaders have been sharing lately & about the accompanying calls for regulation... this is spot on:

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