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👋 Excited to share that over the past year, I've had the privilege to work with my colleagues at Community Change (esp Ingrid Zelaya-Ascencio) and the brilliant team at Change Agent AI (esp Craig Johnson, Aram Fischer, Nicolai Haddal) to build a first-of-its-kind private LLM. Our goals: to strengthen and safeguard grassroots organizing; and to disrupt wealthy corporations' cycle of using these tech advances to consolidate more power. From the release ➡ “The communities who have historically had the freedom to innovate with new technology have been the people who already have traditional resources and power,” said Mikka Kei Macdonald, Creative Director at Community Change Action. “It is both our strategic and moral imperative to make sure that as AI strategy evolves, community organizers and low-income people are not left behind. We have the opportunity to ensure that the next series of innovations are borne and led by the people who will be impacted by them – not just by wealthy entrepreneurs who do not reflect the diversity of the country.” It takes a village to build this type of work, and this one includes the brains of Jasmine Nazarett, Domenica Ghanem, Lizzie Maldonado, Kristee Paschall, Jeff Parcher and many, many more. This fight takes many people and many conversations - and there is far more to share. If you'd like to be involved, or if you have questions and ideas, please DM me. Onwards. https://lnkd.in/efzGxxBx