How do, I think you came from Fair Fight, right? So as you were thinking about building this place that we can hopefully trust, how do you see your work helping to create a better democracy? Oh, I love that smile.

I appreciate that question because it gets into the work that I, the whole purpose of this, right? You're exactly right to link this to voter suppression.

You're exactly right to link this to policy, to progress suppression, because that's the point of this kind of propaganda.

Progress suppression, I like that.

It's not just about how we feel.

It's about what we do, what we're able to do.

Even in the blackout report, we were very, very, very explicit that it was no coincidence that we were seeing what we call and what we believe to be the largest rollback in Black progress since the nadir, since post-reconstruction, at that point, only a few months before, we were very likely to see the end of the Voting Rights Act.

What are the three things that a civically engaged Black person should be thinking about when it comes to not just AI, but this technological world we're in? And how can Onyx help? What's our almost voting tool kit? AI voting toolkit? What is

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honestly they flame me every day Why Aisha and where did she come from? Absolutely.

Aisha is an AI digital assistant, just like Claude or like Chat, that we... officially launched as an app in late June.

And we did so because we wanted to show that AI can actually be done with intentionality, right? And so what makes Ayesha different is that, one, she's, you know, there's environmental awareness around how we built Ayesha.

Our data centers are located in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.

Really? Right? Because...

those cities, it's not that there aren't black folks in those cities, right? Those cities have some of the cleanest energy grids in all of North America.

Okay.

What do you make of the sort of status of AI among the average person right now?

So I, I would say that that s- that skepticism, that distrust is, is, is earned, right? Especially and particularly by the, by the Black community.

Onyx Impact, we are a nonprofit, and the, the sole owner of Aishe AI, right? Our mission is to amplify Black voices and, and protect Black communities in an era of, of disinformation.

And so we spent years researching and creating tools to help Black communities, um, navigate these, these harms.

And A- uh, Aishe is, is, is a product of that, that work, built from the ground up.

And to your point, we know that AI is already shaping.

If we did nothing today, AI is already fundamentally shaping our reality.

How do you respond to that?

Talk to me about this, especially at a time when AI is moving so rapidly and so many people have been left behind.

Look, Today, Onyx Impact launched Aisha, which is a standalone app built from the ground up to better serve our communities, right? You can download it right now at Aisha.ai, but we started this entire project well over a year ago because the most powerful information tool of our generation, AI, right? was being handed to Black communities in a form that was actively harming them.

Profiling us.

Profiling us, harming us.

We know this to be the case.

We know that ChatGPT recommended the death penalty more often when defendants sounded Black.

We know that AI data centers are disproportionately landing in Black communities.

And you're enjoying it.