Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence

While feminist and critical approaches to technoscience are emerging and attracting increasing attention, fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction are still male-dominated. Similarly, new technologies, from assistive robots to chatbots, are often imbued with the same intrinsic power structure, polarisation, stereotypes and biases present in our Western society. An increasing number of scholars have thus called for a feminist reboot, praising more ethical, sustainable and inclusive research practices and epistemologies to AI technologies and their role in modern societies.

Our workshop series "Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence” is many things - a place to discuss new feminisms and how to create more equal, responsible and caring academic environments, an interactive platform for highlighting scholarly methodological diversity, and a way to highlight and empower women's research experiences on how AI science can be done differently. With this workshop series we offer engaged and engaging encounters combining keynote talks with hands-on participatory reflections, inviting situated and concrete ways to use toolkits from feminist and critical perspectives in AI research. Towards this end, we invited four women scholars from an array of academic disciplines to describe their research practices, methods and experiences.

This is achieved by (i) engaging scholars working with AI from a variety of disciplines, spanning from data science to art, political studies and philosophy (ii) to reflect and imagine together how to use tools and theories from feminist approaches can be designed and implemented (iii) to reflect collective societal values considering ethics, diversity, equality. 

Contact: valentina [dot] fantasia [at] lucs [dot] lu [dot] se (valentina[dot]fantasia[at]lucs[dot]lu[dot]se)