ways forward
Our visions for other ways are not meant to be perfectly fitting solutions for the critiques and problems outlined above. Instead they are speculative, yet possible, visions for other ways to be in relationship to technology.
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An African feminist liberatory approach recognizes technology as inherently political rather than neutral. Rather than accepting these embedded politics as inevitable, a liberatory approach would make them explicit and subject to democratic deliberation. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, an African feminist liberatory approach offers a fundamentally different vision of technological progress—one measured not by profit… <Read More>
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A liberatory AI ecosystem is grounded in space and place, this includes the infrastructure that is used to create and maintain it (ie: data centers) and the spaces and places it attempts to present. These places and the knowledges they produce are considered integral to the creations of this AI. Liberatory AI centers a place-based,… <Read More>
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A liberatory AI ecosystem would transform bad labor conditions by ensuring that those most affected by technological systems have a say in how they are designed and governed. <Read More>
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Liberatory AI evaluation facilitates the creation of more just, effective, and community-centered technology by shifting the power of assessment into the hands of those most impacted by these systems. <Read More>
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AI development can work in alignment with environmental sustainability and ecological preservation. <Read More>
