Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism CCCB LAB

Sharon Hogge, an electronics engineer, poses with autonomous sentry robot ROBART I and the HT3 Industrial Robot. Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated. Recently, movements have emerged such as Data Feminism and Design Justice, which analyse technology from a more critical angle with the intention of creating more equity in technological practice. We explore some of their implications based on the artistic project Feminist Data Set, hand in hand with its creator, who explores what an intersectional feminist machine learning labelling and training system would be like and what would be necessary to construct it. In a time of the re-rising of fascism, of what feels like a lessening of social justice values, and in an age of global digitization, social justice has never been more integral in the space of interrogating data, technology, and the structure of society itself.