A curated list of machine learning or AI related projects that work for the benefit of humanity and not for greed or hype.
The scope of this list is to give visibility to projects in ML and AI space that are away from Big Tech greed and try to do things for the benefit of humanity. If you want to add something to this list, open a Pull Request.
- Anything that is small, independent, and comes from communities. AI should not be the new weapon of colonial empires or greedy mastodontic companies.
- Projects that do not exploit workers. If your model is trained by exploiting overseas and south of the world labor, this is not the place for it.
- Projects that try as much as possible to be green. Models with hundreds of billions of parameters are notoriously expensive to train in terms of water for data servers, energy that may come from fossil fuels and real estate that could be used for housing.
- Projects that try to prevent further biases, racial and social injustice, exploitation of local cultures and generally any further enshittification of internet
- Projects that respect the data used for training: copyright, voluntary participation and curation. Not mindless scraping of the web.
- Algorithm Audit - Algorithm Audit is a European non-profit knowledge platform for AI bias testing and normative AI standards.
- Black in AI - A place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
- DAIR - An independent, community-rooted institute set to counter Big Tech’s pervasive influence on the research, development and deployment of AI. Also on GitHub DAIR-AI
- WildMe - On a mission to scale wildlife research and support conservationists by providing multi-feature techniques, speed, and accuracy in animal monitoring.
- Montreal AI Ethics Institute - An international non-profit organization equipping citizens concerned about artificial intelligence and it’s impact on society to take action.
- FairlyTrained - Fairly Trained exists to make it clear which companies take a more consent-based approach to training [AI], and are therefore treating creators more fairly.
- Lesan - Building machine translation systems for languages with millions of speakers, starting in Ethiopia.
- Te Hiku Media / Te Reo Māori - Revitalising and protecting Māori language and giving back the power to the indigenous communities.
- WildMe code - Open source code from the WildMe group.