On February 10, we participated in the launch of LatamGPT in Chile, the first large open language model developed for Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative is coordinated by the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) and brings together 30...
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Typical Phrases, and Critical Thinking: An Experience with Incoming FAMAF Students
On Monday, January 26, we held a workshop for incoming students from different degree programs at FAMAF (UNC), led by Marcos Gómez and Guido Ivetta. The activity took place in two sessions, in the morning and in the afternoon, with a total of 700 students...
Stereotypes, Language Models, and Work: A Chinese Experience
On January 12, we held a seminar at Tsinghua University (China), led by Luciana Benotti. During the seminar, titled “Stereotypes in ‘Reasoning’ Language Models,” we worked with a small group of master’s and PhD students, together with faculty members and researchers...
Our panels at EMNLP 2025 are now available to watch
From November 4 to 9, 2025, we were in Suzhou, China, at the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). Luciana Benotti and Guido Ivetta took part in the event. On Thursday, November 6, Guido presented the paper titled: “HESEIA:...
We won at #MozFest 2025! 🎉
From November 7 to 9, we took part in the 15th Mozilla Festival in Barcelona — the main gathering for people working to build a better digital world. On November 8, Beatriz Busaniche and Marcos Javier Gómez...
The HESEIA project was presented at the international conference EMNLP 2025
From November 4 to 9, 2025, we were in Suzhou, China, attending the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). On Thursday, November 6, Guido Ivetta presented the paper “HESEIA: A Community Dataset to Evaluate Social Biases in...
Call to promote feminist AI in Latin America and the Caribbean
As members of the Feminist Artificial Intelligence Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (FAIR), Fundacion Vía Libre, together with the organisations in the Network, is launching a call for concept notes for project development. This call aims to promote an...
Via Libre at ACL 2025, tutorial: ‘Addressing Ethical Challenges in Natural Language Processing’
On Sunday, July 27, Fundación Vía Libre participated in the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) with the tutorial “Navigating Ethical Challenges in Natural Language Processing: Practical Strategies for Students and Researchers.”...
Vía Libre participated in IGF 2025
From June 23 to 27, the 20th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was held in Norway. This United Nations initiative gathers actors from around the world to debate and shape public policies regarding the present and future of the Internet. Fundación Vía Libre...
Via Libre in Mila: Summer School on Responsible AI and Human Rights
Margarita Trovato, member of Fundación Vía Libre, was selected to participate in the 3rd cohort of the ‘Summer School on Responsible AI and Human Rights’. During 5 days, 40 attendees from different countries and backgrounds gathered in an intensive learning programme...
Responsible Evaluation of Machine Learning Systems
From June 2 to 6, 2025, the intensive course "Responsible Evaluation of Machine Learning Systems" was held at the National University of Córdoba (UNC). It was organized by Luciana Benotti, professor at the School of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing...
We participated in the IACHR Hearing ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights’
On 7 March, we participated virtually in the regional thematic hearing ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights’ organised by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) with the intention of analysing the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI)...











