Wednesday, 12-16 pm
MAR 0.016
De Jesus De Pinho Pinhal, Jessica
Rahel Moser
Algorithms embody values. The seminar ethics of AI will address this fact by proposing analyses of these technologies through methods of technofeminism, as well as decolonialist, critical tech, critical race, gender and queer theories. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house (Lorde 1984). Starting from this bold statement, we take a constructive approach to collectively resist digital colonialism and algorithmic oppression. We argue for humanist, social scientist and engineer activism (Nissenbaum 2001). In pursuit of this goal, this project-based seminar invites students to collaborate in a transdisciplinary fashion. Building upon feminist politics, we refuse hierarchies among user vs. developer, ethics vs. sciences, and interface vs. model. Instead, we will navigate together the tensions, paradoxes and challenges brought about when particular needs and universalist knowledge structuring collide together.
Texts, debates, critical reflections, experiments, and various methods from different fields will converge and diverge, against solutionism, choosing instead open-ends.
- Trainer/in: Sabine Ammon