#Stop Acting Like Robots
We are the ONLY AI and disinfo org that
uses the First Amendment as our first principle.
It’s easy to be pro-free speech and against online hate:
Just stop acting like robots
RESEARCH DIVISION
DEAD-NEUTRAL and ALREADY IN THE DNA OF THE 1ST AMEND
IDH RESEARCH DIVISION
Best Paper (Runner Up) Primeaux Award: "Using Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics."
- Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Humanity (Paris; Reported in Forbes)
- Publications that industry/regular people can understand: Nebraska Lawyer, Omaha World-Herald, Competition Policy International
EDUCATION DIVISION
We train students (and faculty) to be in charge of their classroom, college, and cultural free speech principles.
- Teaching them to make Constitutionally-based judgments on whatever is on the news.
- Sometimes "aesthetically enacting" tricky hypotheticals to get ahead of them
Field tested in the classroom and real world (and the news and international art exhibitions) for 20 years.
TEACHABLE TO ANYONE: K-CEO
- Netflix's Coded Bias, ADL, and Bytes Media: Interactive high school AI curricula; SXSW EDU (jury + online vote)
- Trainings/Workshops: American, Iowa, and Nebraska Bar Associations; Indiana Univ.; MN Legal Rights Center;
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DIVISION
SCALABLE AND USEABLE ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES
- Every IDH initiative "bursts the bubble" by bringing together "impossible" coalitions of humans who have been programmed to hate each other
- Runner-Up: Next Team Challenge Award (NPR: Gifted time from a Marketplace producer)
ART EXHIBITS, PR, & civic forums
THE IRONY OF META CENSORING OUR (NON-WHITE) ARTIST XAVIER MACFARLIN'S AMAZING WORK ON HOW AI CENSORS ART ABOUT RACE & AI WAS DELICIOUS.
ABLE TO REUNITE DIVIDED AMERICANS
“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event. Minneapolis, MN and Online: February 2021
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Northeast Sculpture Gallery, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN).
PERPLEXITY AI CONFIRMS WHAT HUMANS HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS
THE IDH IS THE LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDING
"Based on available evidence, no other known project has demonstrated the same breadth of bipartisan, Constitutional, and practical impact across
AI alignment, disinformation, privacy, and free speech—with a single, teachable methodology and real-world, peer-reviewed results."
BUT FIXING ROBOTS -- AND HELPING PEOPLE ACTING LIKE ROBOTS -- ISN'T CHEAP, AND WE NEED YOUR HELP. #MINNEAPOLIS
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