Atlanta Interdisciplinary
Artificial Intelligence
Network

We are an intentionally interdisciplinary network of Atlanta-based researchers investigating how to enlist AI ethically, equitably, and in the service of justice.

Atlanta Focused

We aim to bring the city of Atlanta, with its historical place in the civil rights movement, to current conversations about the biases embedded in our AI systems.

Humanities Forward

We believe that an equitable, ethical, and justice-oriented approach to AI is possible when humanistic ways of thinking come together with technical knowledge and community expertise.

Promotional graphic for the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network (AIAI) Grant Opportunity, featuring botanical illustrations of scattered brown and red seeds on a pale mint background. Text reads: “Grant Opportunity. Funding for projects that will help to expand the AIAI Network. Awards up to $5,000. Deadline: November 1, 2026. Further info: aiai.network/grants.”

Seed Grants 2026

The Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network supports humanities-forward AI research and community building that takes place in—or is focused on—the city of Atlanta. This year, we are pleased to be able to fund new projects and other collaborations that engage one or more of the following research areas: 1. Data Centers 2. AI Civics 3. AI Literacies 4. AI and Archives 5. Small Language Models 6. Capitalism, Anticapitalism, and Critique Detailed descriptions of these research areas can be found here. Applications for 2026 Seed Grants are due by November 1, 2026

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Rolling Mini-Grants

Thanks to generous funding from the Mellon Foundation, AIAI is able to offer co-sponsorship funding of up to $500 for local events related to AI and Atlanta, and/or AI and the humanities.

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News

Mellon Foundation Awards AIAI Additional Funding

We’re thrilled to announce that the Mellon Foundation has awarded the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network an additional $1.8M to continue our work for the next three years. Read more here.
Seed Grants Awardees ’25

We are excited to announce the awardees of our AIAI Seed Grant program for the year 2025-6.
Publications

A selection of recent and featured publications from the AIAI Network community, including conference papers, journal articles, and project sites.

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Projects

Secondhand Futures

Stuff is made (and discarded) in exce$$. Time is made scarce. We investigate the infrastructures of work, technology and values in secondhand economies. Between oceans of discarded stuff and the drive to ‘hustle,’ many have turned to reselling as a form of work in the US. Extending an established infrastructure of donation-powered charities and thrift stores, a growing number of online marketplaces have increasingly digitalized these transactions, bringing new players and dynamics to secondhand. We seek to understand and reimagine secondhand economies together with resellers and other participants in these ecosystems.

Mug marked for sale for $1.99. Illustration of Bob Ross on it.

Windows of a building in Nuremberg, Germany

AIAI Data Collective

The AIAI Data Collective is dedicated to modeling contextual and ethical data collection, documentation, storage, and sharing for AI research. Our website will house and, when appropriate, share AI training data according to best practices in the field

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Meet our team

Our intra-institutional team includes members from Emory University, Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Tech, and DataEdX, a local data equity consultancy.