Critical Voices in AI

Advanced computing technology – or artificial intelligence, can be framed as a key player in the shaping of knowledge, communication and power in the hands of a few hegemonic forces. From the datafication and monetisation of almost any tangible or un-tangible thing on planet earth, to the normalisation of efficiency and productivity as the highest possible targeted outcomes, AI systems materialise entanglements between global politics and power structures, geo-political governance on human rights and labour, finance, warfare, industrial innovation.

The series offer conversations to unfold the many ways in which those entanglements work, how they affect global and local decisions in education, healthcare, welfare, labour organisation, who is entitled to make those decisions or regulate them, who is affected and whose profits are secured by them. It also aims to frame those entanglements through multiple disciplinary and analytical perspectives, in an effort towards exercising our situated ways of seeing, mapping, framing, accounting, making sense and establishing shared ways of creating knowledge – as a provisional, culturally and historically situated practice – and how to use it. 

Through the voices of activists, scholars and organisations who have endorsed a critical stance towards AI systems, the series will offer onsite/online conversations presenting analytical tools, practices and collective resistance exercises of how AI can be contended and challenged, resisted or harnessed to contribute to social interests.

The series builds on the previously running workshop series Girls Just Want to Have Sc(AI)ence, which had successfully engaged scholars and participants from private and public sectors from all over the world.

Welcome to join in your critical voice with ours!

If you wish to know more about the series, please contact valentina.fantasialucs.luse

The organising team:

Valentina Fantasia, Stefan Larsson, Gaye Askin, Samantha Stedtler, Laetitia Tanqueray