Te Hiku isn’t the only organization pursuing new paths for AI development. Through the course of my reporting for this book, I was repeatedly inspired by the many organizations and movements around the world that have blossomed to resist the empires of AI, assert their rights to self-determination, and envision a new way forward. After Timnit Gebru was ousted from Google, she founded a nonprofit in December 2021 to continue her research. She named it DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute—“distributed” to defy centralization.
