These eight awards align with Mozilla’s focus on fostering more trustworthy AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This project explores deceptive AI that mimic real humans. Users play truth-or-dare with another entity, and at the conclusion of the game, must guess if they were playing with a fellow human or an AI. (\u201cTruths\u201d are played out using text, and \u201cdares\u201d are played out using an online sketchpad.) The project also includes a website outlining the state of mimicry technology, its uses, and its dangers.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [2] Swap the Curators in the Tube <\/b>| by Tomo Kihara in Japan<\/p>\n This project explores how recommendation engines present different realities to different people. Users will peruse the YouTube recommendations of five wildly different personas \u2014 including a conspiracist and a racist persona \u2014 to experience how their recommendations differ.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [3] An Interview with ALEX <\/b>| by Carrie Wang<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n The project is a browser-based experience that simulates a job interview with an AI in a future of gamified work and total surveillance. As the interview progresses, users learn that this automated HR manager is covering up the truth of this job, and using facial and speech recognition to make assumptions and decisions about them.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [4] The Future of Memory <\/b>| by Xiaowei Wang<\/a>, Jasmine Wang<\/a>, and Yang Yuting in the U.S.<\/p>\n This project explores algorithmic censorship, and the ways language can be made illegible to such algorithms. It reverse-engineers how automated censors work, to provide a toolkit of tactics using a new \u201cmachine resistant\u201d language, composed of emoji, memes, steganography and homophones. The project will also archive censored materials on a distributed, physical network of offline modules.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This project uses comics and audio to explore how misinformation spreads across the African continent. Users engage in a choose-your-own-adventure game that simulates how retweets, comments, and other digital actions can sow misinformation, and how that misinformation intersects with gender, religion, and ethnicity.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [6] Deep Reckonings <\/b>| by Stephanie Lepp<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n This project uses deepfakes to address the issue of<\/i> deepfakes. Three false videos will show public figures \u2014 like tech executives \u2014 reckoning with the dangers of synthetic media. Each video will be clearly watermarked and labeled as a deepfake to prevent misinformation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This project uses the 1969 moon landing to explore the topic of modern misinformation. Real coverage of the landing will be presented on a website alongside deepfakes and other false content, to highlight the difficulty of telling the two apart. And by tracking viewers\u2019 attention, the project will reveal which content captivated viewers more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [8] Most FACE Ever <\/b>| by Kyle McDonald<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n This project teaches users about computer vision and facial analysis technology through playful challenges. Users will enable their webcam, engage with facial analysis, and try to \u201clook\u201d a certain way \u2014 say, \u201ccriminal,\u201d or \u201cwhite.\u201d The game reveals how inaccurate and biased facial analysis can often be.<\/p>\n These eight awardees were selected based on quantitative scoring of their applications by a review committee, and a qualitative discussion at a review committee meeting. Committee members included Mozilla staff, current and alumni Mozilla Fellows and Awardees, and outside experts. Selection criteria is designed to evaluate the merits of the proposed approach. Diversity in applicant background, past work, and medium were also considered.<\/p>\n These awards are part of the NetGain Partnership<\/a>, a collaboration between Mozilla, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation. The goal of this philanthropic collaboration is to advance the public interest in the digital age.<\/p>\n
\nThe winners<\/b><\/h3>\n
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[1] Truth-or-Dare Turing Test <\/b>| by Foreign Objects<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Mozilla_Meet_Curators-051-150x150.png\")
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[5] Choose Your Own Fake News <\/b>| by Pollicy<\/a> in Uganda<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/moon-150x150.jpg\")
[7] In Event of Moon Disaster <\/b>| by Halsey Burgund<\/a>, Francesca Panetta, Magnus Bjerg Mortensen, Jeff DelViscio and the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality<\/p>\n
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