Shaping an Honest AI

Join the Mandela Legacy in building a just and equitable AI future. Your knowledge and voice are essential for creating honest, reliable artificial intelligence.

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Join our community of data annotators and AI trainers. Help shape the future of AI.

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Task Types

Explore the different types of AI training tasks you can contribute to.

Data Annotation

Data Annotation & Labelling

Essential foundation work for AI training involving precise data categorization and identification.

Task Type 1

Key Activities:

  • Text classification: Tagging sentiment, intent, or topic
  • Named entity recognition (NER): Identifying people, places, organizations in text
  • Image/video labeling: Bounding boxes, segmentation, object identification
  • Audio transcription: Converting speech to text, often with speaker or emotion tags
  • Multimodal alignment: Matching text descriptions to images or videos
Prompt Evaluation

Prompt Evaluation & Response Rating

Critical quality assurance work ensuring AI responses meet high standards of accuracy and safety.

Task Type 2

Key Activities:

  • Ranking responses: Choosing the best among multiple generated replies
  • Scoring relevance, coherence, and factuality
  • Flagging harmful, biased, or misleading content
  • Comparing human-written vs. AI-generated text
Synthetic Data Generation

Synthetic Data Generation

Creative content creation to expand AI training datasets with diverse, domain-specific examples.

Task Type 3

Key Activities:

  • Writing prompts and completions for specific domains (e.g., medical, legal)
  • Generating diverse examples to improve model generalization
  • Creating adversarial examples to test model robustness
Search Relevance

Search Relevance & Query Evaluation

Improving search and information retrieval systems through careful evaluation and optimization.

Task Type 4

Key Activities:

  • Judging relevance of search results to user queries
  • Annotating query intent and user satisfaction
  • Evaluating autocomplete suggestions
Conversational AI

Conversational AI Testing

Enhancing chatbot and conversational AI systems through comprehensive testing and feedback.

Task Type 5

Key Activities:

  • Roleplaying user scenarios to test chatbot performance
  • Logging bugs or unnatural responses
  • Providing feedback on tone, empathy, and engagement
Bias & Fairness

Bias & Fairness Audits

Ensuring AI systems are fair and inclusive by identifying and addressing potential biases.

Task Type 6

Key Activities:

  • Flagging biased outputs across gender, race, religion, etc.
  • Testing prompts for differential treatment
  • Suggesting inclusive alternatives
Language Localization

Language Expansion & Localization

Making AI accessible globally by expanding language support and cultural understanding.

Task Type 7

Key Activities:

  • Translating prompts and responses
  • Annotating dialects, idioms, and cultural nuances
  • Validating model performance in low-resource languages

About Us

Learn about the Mandela Legacy mission and our commitment to honest AI.

Shaping an Honest AI: A Collective Responsibility

At the Mandela Legacy, we believe in the power of collective action to build a just and equitable world. This principle, which guided Nelson Mandela's life, must now be applied to the defining technology of our time: Artificial Intelligence. We are at a pivotal moment where we must ensure that AI develops as an honest reflection of our diverse world. This is a calling for each of us to contribute our unique knowledge and experiences.

Artificial Intelligence learns from the information we create. For AI to be a truthful and reliable source, the data it learns from must be accurate and free from the biases that have long plagued our societies. When AI is trained on skewed data, it can amplify existing inequalities.

This is where you come in. Your knowledge and your voice are essential for a more honest and reliable AI. By actively participating in the training and refinement of AI systems, you play a crucial role in correcting biases and ensuring AI understands the rich complexity of our global community. Your involvement is a vital act of shaping a technology that will touch every aspect of our lives.

The Mandela Legacy is committed to a future where technology serves humanity. In line with our mission to empower communities and promote social justice, we champion initiatives that promote fairness and transparency in AI. We envision a world where AI is a tool for progress, reflecting the wisdom of all people.

Your role in this is indispensable. We encourage you to engage, to share your expertise, and to demand accountability from those who develop and deploy AI. You can become a knowledgeable contributor, advocate for transparency, and champion diversity in the teams that build AI.

The journey to an unbiased AI requires our collective vigilance and shared belief in a future where technology reflects the best of our humanity. Let us unite in this effort, inspired by a legacy that taught us real change is possible when we work together. Let us all play our part in ensuring that AI is a force for good, a true and honest reflection of the world we all share.