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The AI Social License

A short story about an artifact from a possible future world, exploring a science fiction approach to interrogating the present state of…

4 min readJan 12, 2024

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The AI Social License

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Bogdana Rakova

Trustworthy AI futures: reflections from being a Mozilla Fellow in 2023

2023 was a milestone year for my work and presented me with a transformative shift in my ability to make sense of the rapidly evolving AI…

12 min readJan 10, 2024

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Trustworthy AI futures: reflections from being a Mozilla Fellow in 2023

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Bogdana Rakova

What The Zoom Controversy Teaches Us About AI and Consent

A blog post about the challenges to informed consent in AI; the risks of dark design patterns; and what to do about it.

7 min readAug 10, 2023

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What The Zoom Controversy Teaches Us About AI and Consent

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A New Framework for Coming to Terms with Algorithms

Reflections on terms of service, gender equity, and chatbots

5 min readMay 24, 2023

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Explore the five dimensions of the Terms-we-Serve-with (TwSw) social, computational, and legal framework — co-constitution, addressing friction, informed refusal, disclosure-centered mediation, and contestability.

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Reimagining consent and contestability in AI

What if we could leverage this moment in time to resist and refuse optimizing AI for the common use cases and instead welcome the plurality

5 min readFeb 8, 2023

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Reimagining consent and contestability in AI

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Bogdana Rakova

Understanding friction in the context of using AI to support human decision-makers

Beyond improving the AI systems themselves, we point to the need to think critically about the affordances of the interface through which…

4 min readNov 18, 2022

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Understanding friction in the context of using AI to support human decision-makers

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Bogdana Rakova

Trustworthy AI’s Sense of Place

Aloha ʻĀina was the message in activist and educator Dr. Jamaica Osorio’s reflections on what it means to have a sense of place. The…

5 min readNov 15, 2022

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Trustworthy AI’s Sense of Place

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Bogdana Rakova

Improving transparency in AI by exploring new avenues for human feedback, robustness and…

Being part of Mozilla Foundation has propelled me in working on something that wasn’t in any way possible to explore within industry or

4 min readSep 23, 2022

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Improving transparency in AI by exploring new avenues for human feedback, robustness and…

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Reflecting on the “Sociotechnical Approaches to Governing AI” workshop at the Technical University…

Being obsessed with feedback loops has been an expansive journey for me …

4 min readJun 5, 2022

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Reflecting on the “Sociotechnical Approaches to Governing AI” workshop at the Technical University…

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Bogdana Rakova

What’s Happiness got to do with IT?

Exploring the intersection of AI and community well-being on the International Day of Happiness.

5 min readMar 20, 2021

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What’s Happiness got to do with IT?

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Bogdana Rakova

Bogdana Rakova

Senior Trustworthy AI Fellow at Mozilla Foundation, working on improving AI contestability, transparency, accountability, and human agency

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