Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Mercer

AAPI Data is a nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, with hundreds of news mentions in national and local outlets.

AI4ALL is a US-based nonprofit dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in AI education, research, development, and policy.

The AI Now Institute aims to produce interdisciplinary research and public engagement to help ensure that AI systems are accountable to the communities and contexts in which they're applied.

AJL's mission is to raise public awareness about the impacts of AI, equip advocates with resources to bolster campaigns, build the voice and choice of the most impacted communities, and galvanize researchers, policymakers, and industry practitioners to prevent AI harms.

Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and scientists committed to the mission of using data to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people.

Digital Democracies Institute integrates research in the humanities, social sciences, computer and data sciences to understand and address online polarization, abusive language, discriminatory algorithms and mis/disinformation.

Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech's pervasive influence.

Feminist AI™ works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all. They create spaces where intergenerational BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ womxn and non-binary folks can gather to build tech together that is informed by their cultures, identities and experiences. They engage with intersectional feminism to spotlight stories, inventions, designs and leadership, and to co-create more equitable futures.

The Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.
The working group is interested the following questions:
• From an Indigenous perspective, what should our relationship with A.I. be?
• How can Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies contribute to the global conversation regarding society and A.I.?
• How do we broaden discussions regarding the role of technology in society beyond the largely culturally homogeneous research labs and Silicon Valley startup culture?
• How do we imagine a future with A.I. that contributes to the flourishing of all humans and non-humans?

The Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE) is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to increase recognition, representation, and empowerment of brilliant women in this space who are working hard to save humanity from the dark side of AI.