Speakers: W.E.B. Du Bois Prize winner, Malu Villela, Aditi Pillai, All participants
Report-back (10 min): The Long Road to Feminist AI: A Report-Back Session from Engagements with Feminist Builders and Researchers. As a follow-on to the November 11 Feminist AI pre-conference workshop, Aditi Pillai of IT for Change bridges the pre-event with the wider Solidarity AI conference. She synthesizes key insights from the workshop activities, which highlight and problematize the politics of choice in the AI pipeline facing actors who seek to overturn the dominant extractive AI paradigm. The pre-event engages developers building feminist AI prototypes and researchers working on technical, policy, and applied research questions in South and Southeast Asia. The report-back shares how their collective efforts, buttressed by feminist solidarity AI models, point toward alternative pathways for putting feminist principles into practice in AI development.
Speakers
-
Aditi Pillai Research and Policy Engagement Associate at IT for Change
-
Malu Villela Lecturer in Management at Essex Business School at the University of Essex