Better Images of AI
Better Images of AI is a non-profit collaboration aiming to replace clichéd and misleading AI imagery with more accurate and diverse alternatives. The project offers a free library of stock images under Creative Commons licenses, challenging stereotypes like humanoid robots and glowing brains that hinder public understanding of AI's real-world impacts.
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Have you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?
Humanoid robots, glowing brains, outstretched robot hands, blue backgrounds, and the Terminator.
These stereotypes are not just overworked, they can be surprisingly unhelpful.
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What’s the problem with current tropes?
Abstract, futuristic or science-fiction-inspired images of AI hinder the understanding of the technology’s already significant societal and environmental impacts.
Images relating machine intelligence to human intelligence set unrealistic expectations and misstate the capabilities of AI.
Images representing AI as sentient robots mask the accountability of the humans actually developing the technology, and can suggest the presence of robots where there are none.
Such images potentially sow fear, and research shows they can be laden with historical assumptions about gender, ethnicity and religion.
However, finding alternatives can be difficult! That’s why we, a non-profit collaboration, are researching, creating, curating and providing Better Images of AI.
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Quantified Human - Alan Warburton
Classification Cupboard - Anton Grabolle
Banana / Plant / Flask - Max Gruber
Silicon on Black 1 - Catherine Breslin
A trainer instructing a data annotator on how to label images - Nacho Kamenov
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Our library is the start of a new alternative repository of stock images. They are available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just as inspiration for more helpful and diverse representations of AI.
Together we can increase public understanding and enable more meaningful conversation around this increasingly influential technology. But we need your support. Please get in touch if you have ideas or images, or time and funding to help commission artists and develop guidance.
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Images (pictures) on this site each have their own Creative Commons licence, see each individual image for details. If you’d like to use any of the other content on this site then please get in touch.
Better Images of AI is a non-profit collaboration of various individuals, non-profit and academic institutions. Coordinated by We and AI Ltd, a charitable Company Limited by Guarantee 13376771 registered at 80 Sirdar Road, London W11 4EG