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AI-generated image depicting the failure of facial recognition technology at an airport, an experience that many people with facial differences grapple with daily. Present Moment's Greta Byrum will speak on a panel at the Disability Studies and Advocacy x Habitable Worlds Conference at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles on March 28. Facial recognition technology is broadly implemented in society today. At the DSALA & Habitable worlds-conference of 2026 at Loyola Marymo

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Face Equality International, 2024 Present Moment's work with Face Equality International was highlighted in WIRED's coverage of how face recognition technology doesn't work for many people with facial differences. Present Moment's Yung-Hsuan Wu and Greta Byrum have provided technical assistance and guidance for the facial difference community as they grapple with decisions about how to respond to problems caused by tech systems. “The case of Face Equality International—of peo

GROWING UP IN THE AGE OF AI A Parents’ Workshop Series Parents and Caregivers! Please join us for an in-person, generative, non-technical conversation about kids and AI*. This is a space to connect, explore, and build resources together. Workshop Session #1, 6:30pm-7:45pm on Friday November 21 at Songbird Studio , will invite participants to surface and share hopes, fears, frustrations, and dreams for our kids in the age of AI. It will be reflective, participatory, and action

Tech Policy Press today featured an op-ed authored collaboratively with the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance, NOTICE Coalition, and independent researchers, describing our research on vape detectors in Minnesota school systems. Image: Shutterstock The marketing of AI-driven surveillance solutions to schools is outpacing administrators’ capacity to establish reasonable and clear policies to ensure that new technology is used safely, write a team of researchers who looked at d

By Greta Byrum Last month, public interest technologists, civil society advocates, journalists and researchers who defend human rights and freedom of speech around the globe met in Estoril, Portugal at the Digital Rights Defenders Global Gathering. Amidst threats to democracy and the aftershocks of the withdrawal of US support for internet freedom and digital rights organizations in dozens of countries, one might anticipate the mood would be glum; but the joy of being togethe

Before founding Present Moment, Greta Byrum envisioned and built community technology ecosystems in the public interest for over 15...

Corporate Marketing of AI-Powered Vape Detectors as Educational Technology Authors Todd Whitney, Independent Researcher-Investigator/ Affiliate, Present Moment Enterprises* Yung-Hsuan Wu, Independent AI Auditing Researcher; Affiliate, Present Moment Enterprises* Greta Byrum, Principal Owner, Present Moment Enterprises*  Eloise Gabadou, Independent AI Governance Researcher Clarence Okoh, No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE) Coalition Marika Pfefferkorn, Twin Cities In