Open source AI models can play a vital role in promoting transparency, competition, and experimentation in AI. Two-thirds of recent foundation models were released openly, and popular repositories now boast over a million open models – spanning everything from robotics and climate prediction to text, image, and voice generation…
Abstract: We employ an at-scale randomized experiment to evaluate how one of the world's largest citizen-led monitoring efforts, India's ``social audits'' initiative, impacted corruption and access to social protection in one of India's poorest states. A unique feature is the program's reliance on female auditors drawn from…
What cumulative impacts needs is a simple solution to a complex problem, or at least a simplified approach if solution is a too ambitious goal. A solution implies that they would cease to exist, yet cumulative impacts are a part of everyone’s everyday lives. The question remains whether a feasible, standardized approach can be…
In this talk, Dr. Munyikwa, an anthropologist and practicing clinician, will present cases that help understand how social differences and their structural consequences permeate the clinical space in ways which exceed our existing language to describe them.
