This week Amazon Alexa certified the skill we’ve been working on with Women in Voice from around the world. Freedom speaks features stories, poems and music honoring Iranian women and brings attention to their inspiring resilience. Just say “Alexa, open Freedom Speaks!” to make history come alive. Through voice AI…

Leaders in voice AI, machine learning, natural language processing, ethics and data science release a statement. See how you can help improve AI tools. Global AI Community Statement: Women, Life, Freedom “Throughout the streets of Iran, courageous voices are declaring “woman, life, freedom” while facing brutal and often deadly attacks…

A gender-neutral translation of the Quran, by the late Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar, is inspiring a new generation to understand Islamic texts from the vantage point of a woman. Delana and Karam have been studying the Sublime Quran, a gender-neutral translation by the late Iranian-American scholar, Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar. …

Together with our team, I have made the very difficult decision to end IVOW AI. We are immensely proud of the impact of our work in this space, and of the joint efforts that went into the realization of our research and case studies. We weren’t able to take this…

In this season of giving, donate at any level to our 501c3 charity so that we can make datasets that are inclusive of the female perspective of Islam through the work of the late scholar Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar. Our goal is to create a repository of data, that will make…

It’s not ok for AI to tell us how we think — if it doesn’t even know what we think. We spent last week with Native American students, scientists, educators, and technologists talking, tagging, and telling stories in Phoenix, Arizona. …

The sun is setting over I-40 West as technologist Chamisa Edmo makes her way from Albuquerque to Phoenix to attend the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s (AISES) conference. She’ll be joining us in presenting on the future of storytelling, artificial intelligence and indigenous knowledge.

Once upon a time, Iran had one of the most sophisticated legal systems in the Middle East and for a time the institution of the Judiciary accommodated modernity and Islam. …

Imagine if your virtual assistants could do more than tell you the time or give you a weather report. What if you could also ask them to tell you stories about amazing women throughout history, or stories about food from cultures around the world? This dream is becoming a reality…