Awards

Auditing AI: Announcing the 2023 Mozilla Technology Fund Cohort

These six projects — all focusing on auditing tools for AI systems — comprise the second-ever Mozilla Technology Fund (MTF) cohort

How to Hold AI Landlords Accountable

This is a profile of Countering Tenant Screening, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee

Reward Reports: An audit tool to better document AI

This is a profile of Reward Reports, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee.

Giving Gig Workers the Transparency They Deserve

This is a profile of Gigbox, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee

Evaluation Harness Is Setting the Benchmark for Auditing Large Language Models

This is a profile of Evaluation Harness, a 2023 Mozilla Technology Fund Awardee.

Dope Puffer for Pope: How AI Risk Database is Building a Case for Proper AI Auditing

This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee Responsible AI Collaborative, which records and classifies AI harm events known as "incidents".

AI Forensics: The Detectives Researching AI Harms

This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee AI Forensics. A non-profit which investigates influential algorithms. It was previously known as Tracking Exposed, a project which had been pioneering new methods to hold big tech platforms accountable since 2016.

Zeno: An Interactive Tool For AI Model Evaluation

This is a profile of Zeno, a Mozilla Technology Fund awardee

Introducing the First Ever Mozilla Technology Fund Cohort

These five projects will form the foundation of our MTF program, which aims to hold AI designers accountable, reduce bias and increase transparency.

Exposing the Sexism in Generative AI

Algowritten is a project and Mozilla Technology Fund awardee that detects, describes, and aims to mitigate sexism against women in generative AI.

TheirTok Will Peek Inside TikTok Filter Bubbles

Currently there’s no way to know what other people are seeing on TikTok. TheirTok aims to change that.

FairEVA Is Breaking New Ground In Identifying Bias in Voice Recognition

FairEVA’s research reveals that dangerously few datasets are used in voice recognition training

One Year of Holding TikTok Accountable

This is a closing profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee TikTok Observatory and their work over the past year.

Access Denied! This Doesn’t Sound Like You

You have probably heard this before, “This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance and training purposes”. You were probably calling a customer service center of a bank, an insurance company, or any other service provider. While this might have sounded like a standard procedure, the unknown factor is your voice might have been used to identify and authenticate your credentials.