The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners to discuss the intersections of gender, technology, democracy and human rights. It critically examines how digital platforms and technologies impact women, queer and gender-diverse individuals while exploring pathways for more inclusive, rights-focused digital governance frameworks.
Closing the Gender and Tech Talk Series, this session will focus on the discussion of the concepts of artificial intelligence from a critical perspective and across continents. It is an attempt to highlight the use of such terms as a marketing tool, as well as to rethink the possibilities of digital technologies that could positively serve democracy and public goods. Speakers will be invited to discuss: What are the current trends regarding AI discourse and deployment and how they differ in the Global Majority and Global North? How does AI impact gender minorities? How can people regain control over these technologies? Is an ethical, responsible AI a possibility? What are examples of bottom-up and gender-inclusive AI development and deployment?
The chat on this webinar was full of great resources that will be included in the final report – here are a sample of some of those resources:
- https://aipedagogy.org/
- The People’s Consultation on AI resources are available on the website here: https://peoplesaiconsultation.ca/ (submission templates, consultation questions, and the local facilitation guide, as well as a reading list and list of different types of AI & examples of each)
- https://d37zoqglehb9o7.cloudfront.net/uploads/2024/08/SerpentineArtsTechnologies_ChoralDataTrustExperiment_WhitePaper.2025.02.17.pdf
- Jathan Sadowski’s _The Mechanic and the Luddite_
- https://thecon.ai/ – great book about AI tropes https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k/ – podcast from the same authors
- https://karendhao.com/
- Newly launched worker’s resource hub https://dair-institute.org/projects/luddite-lab/
- I also would highly recommend, in the way of newsletters, Brian Merchant’s Blood in the Machine, and Ed Ongweso Jr’s The Tech Bubble
- Also the work of Data & Society (US thinktank that does a lot of great research into AI & tech)
- https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p
- https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
- https://www.communitytech.network/connected-people-places/the-power-of-placed-based-community-innovation
- https://abundant-intelligences.net/
- https://www.instituteofmachineunlearning.com/
