'Alternative Nobel' honors women's rights activists, AI researcher
The Right Livelihood Award has gone to a female AI researcher and women fighting repression. The Sweden-based prize has been dubbed an "alternative Nobel."
This year's Right Livelihood Award, an alternative to the Nobel Prize, was presented to activists fighting for gender equality, AI researcher Timnit Gebru, and two women-led rights groups. Gebru, a leading AI researcher, received the prize for her work exposing biases in artificial intelligence. In 2020, she co-authored a paper about the risks of biases in large language models while leading Google's Ethical AI team.
However, Google dismissed her after she refused to retract the paper or remove her name unless certain conditions were met. Jalila Haider, a Pakistani lawyer, was honored for being the first female lawyer from her Hazara community to challenge ethnic persecution and discrimination. Haider has fought for justice for marginalized communities, including ethnic, gender, and religious minorities, as well as refugees.
The Rural Women's Assembly, a Southern African group defending land rights for over 178,000 small-scale farmers in 11 countries, was also awarded. The group created a united force to defend land, seed, and bodily autonomy against corporate and patriarchal dispossession. Lastly, the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) received the prize for its role in building and safeguarding Georgian democracy against autocratic forces.
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