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2026: The Culture of AI Lost in Translation: An Autonomous AI and Language Translation Study
Despite over 63% of the world's population speaking a primary language other than English, Large Language Models (LLMs) are overwhelmingly trained on English text. This results in a one-dimensional practice that causes serious societal harm beyond simple translation failures.
That framing stayed with our study author, Karen Jensen. It also became the origin of this study.

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4 days ago5 min read


Reflections from Geneva: Community, Governance, and Action at AI for Good 2026
The ITU AI for Good Global Summit, the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, and the WSIS Process brought international delegates to Geneva to address how artificial intelligence is deployed and regulated. Returning to the summit for a second consecutive year, Women in AI brought a significantly expanded delegation—including Alessandra Sala (WAI President), Hala Hibri (WAI Switzerland Ambassador), Katherine Bustos Rodas (WAI Europe Lead), Auxane Boch (WAI Germany Ambassador),

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5 days ago3 min read


Technical Standards and Global Readiness: WAI Film Screenings at AI for Good 2026
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Today at the AI for Good Global Summit, two sessions addressing technical frameworks and infrastructure readiness will feature film screenings to ground their respective discussions. Both films involve members of the Women in AI (WAI) community and are integrated directly into the summit's official workshops and panels. Below is the schedule and detail for these sessions: 1:00 PM CEST | AI and Multimedia Authenticity Standards Workshop Session Chair: Al
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Jul 92 min read


Women in AI at the AI for Good Summit 2026: Championing Inclusivity and Leadership
For the second consecutive year, Women in AI (WAI) is proud to announce its presence at the prestigious AI for Good Global Summit. As a global community dedicated to shaping inclusive artificial intelligence, our return to this premier UN platform underscores a steady, unwavering commitment: ensuring that the guardrails and regulatory frameworks of tomorrow's tech are built by diverse voices today. WOMEN IN AI Featured Sessions & Speakers Advancing Women’s Leadership In AI an

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Jul 62 min read


What if a prosthetic limb could learn to anticipate your next move?
This paper, published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) tackles a core challenge in machine learning for sequential systems: a model’s predictions can change the future inputs it later receives, causing errors to compound over time. The paper matters because it proposes a way to close that gap using a continual world model.

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Jun 242 min read


Open data is transforming medical AI; but governance is struggling to keep up.
This paper investigates what happens after medical datasets are shared publicly, especially when they are copied, re-uploaded, and reused across platforms like Kaggle and HuggingFace. It matters because this may not only violate licenses and contribute to the reproducibility crisis in AI, but also lead to overoptimistic results, which can have serious real-world consequences, directly affecting patients in healthcare AI.

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Jun 172 min read


Navigating AI in Healthcare as a CitizeN
For years, the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has focused on institutions. We have heard about AI for hospitals, clinicians, diagnostics, and health system efficiency. These are important developments, and they deserve attention, but it is no longer the full picture.

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Jun 108 min read


Smarter trains. Smaller footprint. Real-world ready. Powered by AI.
This paper addresses the problem of efficient panoptic perception in railway environments, specifically the need to simultaneously perform object detection (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians, signals) and semantic segmentation (e.g., rails, tracks, poles) using a lightweight and real-time model.

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Jun 34 min read


WAILabs Psych Corner: How AI Interactional Systems Shape Psychology - And Why Gender Matters
As a researcher at the intersection of psychology, human-computer interaction (HCI), and AI ethics, my work has long been driven by a simple yet urgent question: How do interactive and interactional systems - not just as tools, but as entities and experience creators - shape our emotions, behaviours, interactions with others and even our sense of self?

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May 275 min read


Strengthening Internal Reporting Channels for AI Whistleblowers
Whistleblowing channels are a well-established element of corporate governance, helping organizations detect misconduct early and limit legal and reputational harm. This function is especially important in the AI context. This article is written by Rocío Riesco. Her interests include responsible AI, whistleblower protection, and governance challenges related to emerging technologies. Her interests include responsible AI,whistleblower protection, and governance challenges rela

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May 256 min read
An AI energy advisor for your home
The paper addresses the high computational cost of active learning, where large models must be repeatedly trained to select informative data for labeling. This limits its practicality, especially for large-scale or resource-constrained settings.

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May 195 min read


Synthetic Influencers and AI-generated Commercial Content: Is It Time for a Conceptual and Regulatory Recalibration?
Synthetic Influencers are no longer sci-fi curiosities. They are already adopted by many brands as scalable marketing tools that help sell products by mimicking human behaviour and interacting with users online. AI-generated personas like Lil Miquela, fronting campaigns for Prada and Calvin Klein, and Lu do Magalu, partnered with Samsung and Red Bull, now command millions of followers and operate at a scale no human creator can match without the support of AI tools.

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May 187 min read


Less data, better diagnosis: an efficient AI approach to detecting cardiovascular disease
What makes this research particularly compelling is the convergence of three powerful ideas that are rarely combined in a single experimental study: continuous wavelet transform (CWT) scalogram image generation, masked autoencoder (MAE) self-supervised
The paper addresses the high computational cost of active learning, where large models must be repeatedly trained to select informative data for labeling. This limits its practicality, especially for large-scale or resource-c

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May 131 min read
Faster, cheaper, better - Rethinking how AI models learn
hat problem does this paper address, and why does it matter?
The paper addresses the high computational cost of active learning, where large models must be repeatedly trained to select informative data for labeling. This limits its practicality, especially for large-scale or resource-constrained settings.

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May 74 min read


Fair AI in Practice: Join Women in AI at the DIVERSIFAIR Final Conference
The DIVERSIFAIR project concludes with the "Fair AI in Practice" conference on 19 May in Brussels. As a project partner, Women in AI (WAI) is represented by President Dr Alessandra Sala, who delivers the keynote, and Adebola Olomo and Dr Laura Caroli, who join panels on inclusive design. The event focuses on intersectional fairness and practical tools like the Fair AI Scrum Workshop. Seats are limited!

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May 52 min read


The Question of Legitimate Interest As Lawful Basis for Training AI Models
In this article, Petruta Pirvan and Sonal Makhija explore several real-world use cases and highlight the practical challenges that organizations commonly encounter.The growing reliance on legitimate interest as the primary lawful basis for AI training has been broadly accepted by EU data protection authorities. In comparison to the impracticality of obtaining consent at scale, legitimate interest offers a more pragmatic path. However, its applicability depends on the specific

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Apr 277 min read


Women in AI Partners with GITEX KENYA
As part of the community partnership between WAI Kenya and Gitex Kenya, the WAI community benefits from 50% registration until 28 August.

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Apr 141 min read


Four Questions Chinese Courts Are Answering About AI
This article is written by Dawn YU, a patent attorney and Shareholder at Jiaquan IP Law in China, focusing on cross-border patent strategy, patent invalidation proceedings, and trade secret protection. She works with technology companies and international partners on patent disputes and innovation protection, especially in areas such as AI, medical devices, and advanced manufacturing. She also led the development of the firm’s AI-assisted tool for monitoring CNIPA post-grant

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Apr 135 min read


Joined by the Seam or a Thread?
This article is written by Dina Blikshteyn, a partner and Co-Chair of AI and Deep Learning Practice Group and Haynes Boone, LLP. Dina focuses her practice on intellectual property portfolio management, post-grant proceedings, and AI Governance. Dina also regularly speaks and publishes on issues related to AI.

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Mar 295 min read


From Bits to Meaning: Semantic AI for Wireless
Wireless was born to ship bits. The next wave will ship intent. We still celebrate lower bit error rate (BER) and higher spectral efficiency, yet many modern applications don’t need every bit, they need the right information to make the next decision. If a detector’s confidence is unchanged, why protect the last kilobyte? If a policy is invariant to pixel noise, why retransmit for perfection?

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Mar 173 min read
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