Feminist AI

Professor Jude Browne is the Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and the Frankopan Director of the Centre for Gender Studies. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) on the Gender and Technology project (funded by Christina Gaw). She has published multiple books and is the inaugural winner of the Aaron Rapport Prize, as well as a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize winner. Dr Stephen Cave is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on philosophy and ethics of technology, particularly AI, robotics and life-extension. He is the author of Immortality (Crown, 2012), a New Scientist book of the year, and Should We Want to Live Forever (Routledge, 2023); and co-editor of AI Narratives (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI (Oxford University Press, 2023). He writes widely about philosophy, technology and society, including for the Guardian and Atlantic. He also advises governments around the world, and has served as a British diplomat. Dr Eleanor Drage is a Christina Gaw Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies, a Research Associate of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and a Research Associate at Darwin College, Cambridge. She examines how anti-racist and anti-sexist critical theory can be implemented at industry-level to develop ethical and socially transformative technological products. For her work, she has been recognised as one of Women in AI Ethics' Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2022. She has also spoken and written widely about gender, feminism and techology for outlets such as the UN, Natwest, and IAI TV. Dr Kerry Mackereth is a Christina Gaw Post-doctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and a research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI). She is a former Girdlers Scholar and Gates Cambridge Scholar, and was recognised as one of Women in AI Ethics' Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2022. As of October 2022 she will be joining LCFI as a postdoctoral researcher on anti-Asian racism and AI, and will be a Visiting Fellow at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies in 2023.

1: N. Katherine Hayles: Technosymbiosis: Figuring (Out) Our Relations to AI
2: Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite: Making Kin with the Machines
3: Apolline Taillandier: AI in a Different Voice: Rethinking Computers, Learning, and Gender Difference at MIT in the 1980s
4: Judy Wajcman and Erin Young: Feminism Confronts AI: The Gender Relations of Digitalisation
5: Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth: Shuri in the Sea of Dudes: the Cultural Construction of the AI Engineer
6: Lauren Wilcox: No Humans in the Loop: Killer Robots, Race and AI
7: Kerry Mackereth: Coding 'Carnal Knowledge' into Carceral Systems: A Feminist Abolitionist Approach to Predictive Policing
8: Lelia Marie Hampton: Techno Racial Capitalism: A Decolonial Black Feminist Marxist Perspective
9: Neda Atanasoski: Feminist Technofutures: Contesting the Ethics and Politics of Sex Robots and AI
10: Jennifer Rhee: From ELIZA to Alexa: Automated Care Labour and the Otherwise of Radical Care
11: Sareeta Amrute: Of Techno-Ethics and Techno-Affects
12: Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein: The False Binary of Reason and Emotion in Data Visualisation
13: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell, and Alexander Todorov: Physiognomy's New Clothes
14: Michele Elam: Signs Taken for Wonders: AI, Art and the Matter of Race
15: Caroline Bassett: The Cruel Optimism of Technological Dreams: Thinking AI through Lauren Berlant
16: Eleanor Drage and Federica Frabetti: AI that Matters: A Feminist Approach to the Study of Intelligent Machines
17: Os Keyes: Automating Autism
18: Rune Nyrup, Charlene Chu and Elena Falco: Digital Ageism, Algorithmic Bias and Feminist Critical Theory
19: Jude Browne: AI & Structural Injustice: A Feminist Perspective
20: Neema Iyer, Garnett Achieng and Chenai Chair: Afrofeminist Data Futures
21: Sasha Costanza-Chock: Design Practices: Nothing About Us Without Us