Event Description
In recent years, technologies loosely grouped under the rubric of artificial intelligence (AI) have been rapidly implemented and institutionalized. These efforts promote AI as an inevitable technological advancement while reformist AI frameworks—otherwise called “equitable,” “responsible,” or even “benevolent”—often serve to legitimize its widespread adoption. Yet as decades of feminist interventions teach us, both celebratory and reformist narratives obscure and perpetuate the gendered, racialized, colonial, extractive, eugenicist, and militarized histories underpinning these technologies. The construction of AI as inevitable naturalizes the systems of power through which corporations, tech billionaires, governments, and higher ed institutions shape technological development and determine whose interests it serves.
This conference approaches AI as infrastructure: material, political, ecological, and historical. By refusing the inevitability of AI through collective knowledge-making, it invites participants to conversations that center their agency in building and practicing technological and non-technological futures. What feminist responses and imaginings can help us move towards social justice, liberation, and collective world-building, across disciplines and lived experiences?
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage for additional information. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women at Barnard College. Sponsored by the Center for Science and Society.
