Second round of concurrent sessions
Format: Interactive panel
Moderator: Nandini Chami
Speakers: Aindriya Barua, Usha Raman
The perils of today’s AI innovation trajectories are well understood. Transnational monopolies control every layer of the technology stack, which is marked by market fundamentalism and epistemic injustice. Yet even in this hostile landscape, builders, developers, and innovators are trying to bring a different kind of AI to life, one that is attentive to lived experience, driven by communities, and responsive to gender equality challenges in local contexts. This fledgling ecosystem lies between two extremes: an extractive stack controlled by monopolies on one side and the utopian ideal of feminist AI on the other. In this liminal space, developers face dilemmas, tensions, and trade-offs that constrain their choices. In this interactive panel, moderated by Nandini Chami, Aindriya Barua and Usha Raman examine approaches to real-worlding feminist AI and the technical, social, policy, funding, and structural levers needed to address these dilemmas and move toward feminist AI futures.
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Speakers
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Aindriya Barua AI engineer and artist, Shhor
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Nandini Chami Deputy Director and Fellow for Research and Policy Engagement at IT for Change
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Usha Raman Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of Hyderabad