Only 9% of Americans believe AI will do more good than harm, yet it is increasingly embedding itself within society, often in the name of social impact.

The "AI for Good" movement promotes spreading frontier models for "societal benefit" despite limited evidence of meaningful impact, low public desire, and self-admitted claims that already-present harms can escalate.

This top down push from Big Tech involves partnering with "trust based institutions" who choose to look past their mass, non-consensual collection of training data, environmental harms, and contracts in defense, surveillance, and other mechanisms for oppression. This helps improve poor public sentiment and penetrate the market at a time of light regulation while circumventing accountability as downstream communities absorb risks.

The Kaleidoscope Project is an organization that aims to counterbalance this top-down push by researching and facilitating ethically-sourced, community-owned contextual deployment dataset to strengthen evidence-based decision making, strategic cross-functional coalitions, and public agency.

Our pilot research project is mapping the expertise of anyone whose work fits into one of our Kaleidoscope categories? This short survey will help produce a public report at minimum and may be connected to resources to progress your work. [COMING SOON]