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14-06-2026

Who Collects the Data: Building AI's Missing Record on Women

A funded architecture for collecting consented, provenanced data on women—with women’s rights organizations as the certified, paid field force.

12-06-2026

Apertus: The AI Model That Can Prove Its Bias

Switzerland’s open model is the only frontier AI whose training data can be audited for the gender gap that makes AI misdiagnose women.

12-06-2026

AI Bias Compounds: The Recursion Deadline

AI models trained on AI outputs erase data on women fastest. Why corrective data must enter the foundational layer now, before bias locks in.

28-04-2026

Governing AI Through the Purse: The Case for Public Interest Procurement

Emma Kallina presents six concrete practices for responsible AI procurement

30-03-2026

Toward substantive intersectional algorithmic fairness

Drawing on her research, Marie Mirsch challenges conventional understandings of fairness in algorithmic decision-making

28 – 12-2025

FedTM: The Hybrid AI Model Boosting Performance and Digital Health Equity

Raissa Souza demonstrates that by recognizing and designing for the limitations of less-resourced sites, the FedTM model allows their unique data to contribute to AI development.

12 – 02-2026

AI & Equality 2025 Annual Report

News | The future of AI isn’t predetermined. We have the agency to shape it. This 2024-2025 report shows what that looks like in practice.

28 – 12-2025

The Unseen Harms: How Biased Data Blinds AI to Gender Violence in Africa

Athandiwe Saba on Stage 3 of the AI Lifecycle: Data Discovery & Documenting organized TFGBV campaigns across 11 African countries

10-12-2025

5 Questions to Ask Before Deploying AI for Health in Africa

The Makerere AI Health Lab’s malaria diagnostics initiative provides a compelling example of how thoughtful design, grounded in context and human rights, can make AI for health both effective and equitable.

08-12-2025

3D Printing Meets Machine Learning: Building Malaria Diagnostics That Work Offline

Insights from developing a smartphone-based malaria diagnosis system designed specifically for Uganda’s healthcare realities by Makerere AI Health Lab

08-12-2025

Measuring AI’s Moral Compass: Why the Human Rights Benchmark is Essential

Dr. Savannah Thais presents the research outcomes of the AI & Equality Human Rights LLM Benchmark

21-11-2025

Why Africa Must Own Its AI Future

Innovation begins where communities shape technology, not where technology shapes communities.

14-11-2025

Beyond the Lab: How sensors.AFRICA is Redefining AI Accountability for Environmental Justice

Alicia Olago on Stage 5 of the AI Lifecycle: Does the system truly serve the communities it was meant to empower?

09-11-2025

Bridging the AI Divide: Prioritizing African Languages and Local Knowledge

Dr. Lilian Wanzare on Model Selection and two groundbreaking projects: Ken Corpus and Kenyan Sign Language (KSL)

11-11-2025

Beyond Metrics: Intersectionality & The Future of AI Fairness

Steven Vethman on why quantifying bias is insufficient for AI fairness. Learn five actionable steps to integrate intersectionality, Black feminist theory, and social justice into ethical AI development.

22-10-2025

AI for Equitable Health: The Makerere Blueprint for Context-Aware System Requirements

Researcher Dr. Rose Nakasi speaks on the 3D-printable adapter for Malaria Diagnosis

21-10-2025

Co-Creating AI for Agriculture: Nigeria’s Nsukka Yellow Pepper Project

Joel Nwakaire | African Toolbox Case Study

21-10-2025

Bridging Language Barriers: AI for Kenyan Sign Language and Digital Inclusion

Lilian Wanzare | African Toolbox Case Study

21-10-2025

Design by Inclusion in AI Development: Uganda’s Cassava Farming Initiative

Daisy Salifu | African Toolbox Case Study

21-10-2025

AI-Powered Malaria Diagnostics: Makerere AI Health Lab Initiative

Rose Nakasi | African Toolbox Case Study

21-10-2025

AI Climate Sensors in Africa

Alicia Olago | African Toolbox Case Study

21-10-2025

Empowering African Languages through NLP: KenCorpus Project

Lilian Wanzare | African Toolbox Case Study

20-10-2025

Advancing Justice and human rights in Latin America through a tailored AI & Equality Toolbox

A crucial collaboration between Women at the Table and the Chilean Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA).

09-10-2025

Can AI Truly Uphold Human Rights? Introducing the Groundbreaking Human Rights Benchmark

Open Studio | Dr. Savannah Thais presents the process and methodology of the ongoing LLMs Human Rights Benchmark Project.

06-10-2025

When AI Becomes a Weapon: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Africa

This case study is part of our African AI & Equality Toolbox.

05-10-2025

Why Community Engagement is Key to Ethical AI

Open Studio | Emma Kallina introduces the new AI & Equality Stakeholder Module

22-09-2025

African AI & Equality Toolbox: Introduction & Stage 1

Researchers Daisy Salifu and Joel Nwakaire present Uganda’s Cassava Project & Nigeria’s Yellow Pepper Project

11-09-2025

African AI & Equality Toolbox: Transforming AI in Africa with A Human Rights-Centered Approach

African <AI & Equality> Toolbox Launch Webinar with Winston Ojenge and Caitlin Kraft-Buckman

28-08-2025

Launching the African AI & Equality Toolbox Webinar Series

News | In collaboration with the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) featuring African case studies & context for the AI life cycle

15-07-2025

Pioneering a Human Rights Benchmark for Large Language Models

News | The Human Rights Benchmark project aims to provide a standardized method to assess whether large language models (LLMs) truly understand and uphold human rights legal frameworks.

30-06-2025

Measurement for Effective and Ethical AI

Open Studio | Savannah Thais addresses the critical “measurement crisis in AI,” advocating for scientific rigor and ethical considerations in AI development.

16- 05 – 2025

"Come to us first": Centering Community Organizations in Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Partnerships

Pub Talk | Hongjin Lin explored the realities and tensions of AI for Social Good (AI4SG) initiatives, raising critical questions about who truly benefits from these efforts.

10-06-2025

Our Community Commentary Featured in the Hamburg Declaration!

News | Our <AI & Equality> Human Rights Initiative Community Commentary has been featured in the newly launched Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for the SDGs—a major milestone in the global conversation on AI and sustainable development.

05-06-2025

My Body, My Data: data sharing, transparency, and control in fertility tracking

Pub Talk | Anna Ida Hudig presents research into how fertility tracking apps handle intimate information—such as cycle data, mood, and sexual activity—and where that data goes.

22 – 05 – 2025

W@TT: TEN YEARS Sparking Systems Change

News| Celebrating a decade of Women At The Table, founder of the AI & Equality

16- 05 – 2025

Leveraging AI Regulation for Inclusive Design: The High-Risk EU AI Act Toolkit (HEAT)

Pub Talk | Tomasz Hollanek presents the High-risk EU AI Act Toolkit (HEAT)—an ethical AI framework which adopts a pro-justice, feminist-informed approach to stakeholder engagement.

12- 05 – 2025

Seeing What’s Missing: Bringing Responsible AI Research Gaps into Focus Through A Landscape Analysis

Pub Talk| Anna Neumann presents the findings of a landscape analysis on Responsible AI conducted across major conferences like FAccT, AIES, and CHI.

18- 03 – 2025

Designing AI For Human Agency

Open Studio | Linda Wen shares insights from two projects developed with her team at Microsoft Research, guided by a strong commitment to user centered, participatory design: Find My Things; a TeachableAI for blind or low-vision; and Muse, a Generative AI model that assists game creators.