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.

The weekend felt like an eternity for the 13-year-old. So when she handed back her "robot baby" it was with great relief. She had taken part in a program launched by the Caldas municipality in Colombia to try to tackle the problem of teenage pregnancies. "This experience was pretty tough, it's not easy being a mommy or a daddy," Ortegon said. The baby's cries were so loud that they even bothered her parents.