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What does AI really look like? Download free images and guides, read explorations of visual narratives about AI. A white robot and glowing blue brain free zone! A volunteer collaboration run by We and AI and built by BBC R&D BetterImagesofAI.org

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We and AI @weandai.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join us for a full day programme of reimagining and reclaiming AI at London Data Week 2026 on the 8th of July at King's College London Book here: lnkd.in/ekj3dbQ5
Poster for the London Data Week 2026 event “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 
8th July 2026. Includes organiser logos from We and AI, Better Images of AI and The AI Resist List, and partner logos King's College London Digital Futures Institute, Design Informatics, Our AI Collective CIC, Kairoi, BLAM UK CIC, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network. A hand-illustrated collage graphic represents optimistic people power in a green flourishing landscape.
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New on the Better Images of AI blog: The Mystical Art of Making Maths Sparkle: A Wizard’s Guide to Statistical Sorcery by Berk Alkoç (he/him) 👉🏽 You can read the blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/the-mystical...
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The Mystical Art of Making Maths Sparkle: A Wizard's Guide to Statistical Sorcery - Better Images of AI Blog
Berk Alkoç traces the emergence of this visual metaphor and unpacks the implications of using sparkles to represent AI. In his own 5 steps of statistical sorcery, Berk criticises the corporate narrati...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
❓Did you know that you can donate your own better images of AI to our library? If you make your own images and would like to help improve the transparency and inclusivity of AI media, the Better Images of AI Submission Handbook makes this easier 🙌🏽 blog.betterimagesofai.org/submission-h...
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Submission Handbook for Better Images of AI - Better Images of AI Blog
To make the process of submitting images to our library easier for everyone, we've released our Submission Handbook to Better Images of AI.
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In the latest post on the Better Images of AI blog, Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo chatted to Julieta Longo about her image 'Digitalisation and Moonlighting’, awarded runner-up in the Digital Dialogues competition, run earlier this year with the Digit Centre. blog.betterimagesofai.org/behind-the-i...
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Behind the Image: Digitalisation and Moonlighting - Better Images of AI Blog
In this blog post, Laura Martinez Agudelo (volunteer steward) chatted to Julieta Longo (artist) behind the series of images ‘Digitalisation and Moonlighting’ that were awarded as a runner-up in the Di...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Gloria Medoza's image, ‘The Environmental Impact of Data Centres in Vulnerable Ecosystems’ is one of our newest additions in the Better Images of AI library. Download Gloria's image to use for free, under a CC BY 4.0 license, so long as you correctly attribute: betterimagesofai.org/images?artis...
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We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our latest post on Better Images of AI's blog is about our new collection of images in the library from Lone Thomasky and Bits & Bäume which expose the realities behind the often perceived “clean”, “slick”, and “efficient” AI supply chains. Read more here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/visualising-...
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Visualising the Supply Chain of AI: Lone Thomasky and Bits & Bäume’s Image Collection – Better Images of AI Blog
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Archival Images of AI," a guide to making hype-free images of AI, wins Silver & People's Lovie in Art, Culture & Heritage! Congrats @aixdesign.bsky.social, @nadiapiet.bsky.social, @taniaduarte.bsky.social, Ploipailin Flynn, @thedominica.bsky.social! (Delighted to be a contributor & advisor!) ⬇️
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Judge a book by its cover. The book that @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I wrote on #LLMs and #GenAI --"Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social--is featured on the @betterimagesofai.bsky.social blog. blog.betterimagesofai.org/better-image...
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Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions: Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions Online @hypestudies.bsky.social 10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST hypestudies.org/conference/c...
Exploring metaphors of AI: 
Visualisations, narratives and perception

Hype Studies Conference (Barcelona) and ONLINE
10th September 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST (UTC +2)
Online registration at hypestudies.org

Join an exploration of insightful research and art as explorations on how AI hype narratives derive power from metaphors. Featuring presentations, discussion and Q&A including:

Myra Cheng - Measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors
Leo Lau  - New visual metaphors of AI
Tania Duarte - Better Images of AI (moderator)
Anuj Gupta and Yasser Atef - ChatGPT metaphors for developing critical AI literacies 
Rainer Rehak - AI narrative breakdowns of power and promise
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
💜 to see it! @betterimagesofai.bsky.social now has an image representing "stochastic parrots at work" betterimagesofai.org/images?artis... 🦜 cc @mmitchell.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
these two power tools of ai images i created, are live on @betterimagesofai.bsky.social i donated them so anyone can use them for free. if you’re not familiar with better images of ai, their mission is to source ai images that aren’t stereotypical and better represent the discourse around ai.
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📣📣There are just a few days left to enter our ‘digital transformation at work’ art competition with @digitcentre.bsky.social! Meet the fantastic judging panel looking forward to seeing how budding and activist artists reinvent the scifi-inspired ways digital and work are represented in images👇🏽 1/4
 A poster announcing the judges for an open competition for artists and makers to create images illustrating the realities of digital transformations at work. 10 judges are listed with a circular headshot and their names underneath. A text box on the poster states that there are monetary prizes, global entries, and all creative fields are welcomed. 
‘Digital Transformation at Work’ Art Competition
DEADLINE TO ENTER: 18th May 2025
JUDGING PANEL
Bhumika Billa
Chanell Daniels
Jacqueline O’Reilly
Maninder Paul
Tania Duarte
Rob Keery
Niels Bonde
Nina Wakeford
Michael Luck
Ben Wodeki
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Tavistock Institute of Human Relations @tavinstitute.org · 16/04/2025
What does digital transformation look like? (don't read on if you want images of robotic hands or strings of neon data). Better Images of AI collects and freely shares creative visions of human/AI interactions and this competition is open until 18 May...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
OPEN TODAY: Competition to create more realistic stock images of digital transformation at work! 🔔 Closes 18/05/25 🏆 Monetary prizes 🌍 Global competition 🔗 Read the brief: bit.ly/digitartcomp Digital Dialogues Art Competition is a partnership with @digitcentre.bsky.social funded by UKRI ESRC
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Open Competition to Create More Realistic Stock Images of 'Digital Transformation at Work' - Better Images of AI Blog
ANNOUNCEMENT Calling all artists and makers! The ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) and Better Images of AI (BIoAI) are delighted to announce a competition to reimagine the visual co...
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme is thrilled to announce the selection of seven outstanding UK-based artists for our commissioning project aimed at exploring and enriching the responsible AI ecosystem through artistic expression...
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
There will be lots of talk about Better Images of AI at the @weandai.bsky.social 5th Birthday celebration, as We and AI maintain the image library and run the collaboration. Join us to find out why!
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Anna Colom @annacolom.eurosky.social · 27/02/2025
New co-authored piece. PS. So pleased that @techpolicypress.bsky.social coincidentally chose one my all-time favourite illustrations of @betterimagesofai.bsky.social! @martapoblet.bsky.social @timdavies.org.uk @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A great science communication write up of our project - great to see it in German!
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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Psyched to have a work of mine from the @betterimagesofai.bsky.social gallery used to illustrate a great article... that was in turn reposted by one of the people who coauthored the original OSTP Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights on which I built my piece for a BoR for education. 😍
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Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
As part of our new blog series, 'Through My Eyes', Laura Sofía Martínez Agudelo shares her reflections on 'Weaving Wires 1' – Hanna Barakat, OLY's 'better image of AI' that was created for the Archival Images of AI playbook. 👉🏽 Read Laura's blog post here: blog.betterimagesofai.org/weaved-wires...
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'Weaved Wires Weaving Me' by Laura Martinez Agudelo - Better Images of AI Blog
Laura comments on how the image uncovers the hidden Navajo women's labor behind the assembly of microchips in Silicon Valley – inviting us to confront the oppressive cultural conditions of conception,...
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thank you for use of this wonderful image @betterimagesofai.bsky.social Hanna Barakat + AIxDESIGN & Archival Images of AI / Better Images of AI / Data Mining 1 / CC-BY 4.0
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