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We Need to Talk About Robots: Gender, Datafication and AI

November 21, 2019

This talk reviews how the acceleration of data infrastructure development and growing adoption of data practices in everyday life are entwined with wider cultural discourses about gender and sexuality. Using artificial intelligence (AI) assistants and social robots such as Alexa and Siri as an example, it analyses these links from a feminist data studies perspective focusing on three key themes.

Aristea Fotopoulou is the author of “Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability” (2017, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer) and currently writing the book “Feminist Data Studies: Big Data, Critique and Social Justice” (2020, SAGE).

Tagged With: AI, gender

Rewards and risks in humanitarian AI: an example

September 18, 2019

New technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, can make humanitarian work better, faster and more effective, but there are dangers too, which is why the ICRC is proceeding with caution. Various departments across the ICRC – among them Digital Transformation & Data, Protection, Information and Communication Technology, Law and Policy – are grappling with these innovations and their implications in different ways. In this article, ICRC looks at one example.

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Filed Under: Big Data, Humanitarian, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development) Tagged With: AI, Digital Transformation and Data, ICRC, Machine Learning, New Technologies

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