Data, Algorithm, "Artificial" Intelligence: What's Wrong With That?

There is a lot of hype around data, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) in many regions of the world. Sometimes it is about futuristic technologies like self driving cars, but there are already everyday applications that impact our communities in negative ways. As feminist, anticapitalist, anti-racist activists, we need to understand the implications and politics of these technologies, because in many cases they exacerbate wealth and power inequalities and they reproduce racial and gender discrimination. Data, algorithms and artificial intelligence are playing more and more of a role in our lives, even if most of the time we might not even be aware of their existence. Their impacts sometimes may be equally invisible.