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Timnit Gebru Wins Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award for AI Challenge

By Drooid · Sep 30, 2026, 10:50 AM UTC · How we work

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Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award honored AI researcher Timnit Gebru for challenging concentrated AI power.
Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider received the prize for defending vulnerable ethnic, gender and religious minorities.
The Rural Women’s Assembly united over 178,000 Southern African farmers, creating 24 seed-preservation sites.
Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, founded 1994, helped draft Georgia’s first post-independence constitution and won major legal victories.

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Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award honored AI researcher Timnit Gebru for challenging concentrated AI power.
Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider received the prize for defending vulnerable ethnic, gender and religious minorities.
The Rural Women’s Assembly united over 178,000 Southern African farmers, creating 24 seed-preservation sites.
Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, founded 1994, helped draft Georgia’s first post-independence constitution and won major legal victories.