ORGANIZATION

Women Reclaiming AI

July 21, 2024 pleighni11
January 14, 2024 birgitteaga
January 12, 2024 birgitteaga

Women Reclaiming AI (WRAI )aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest.

Mission and Purpose

WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest.

Origins and Development

WRAI is a response to the pervasive depiction of AI voice assistants gendered as women, subordinate and serving. Designed by development teams which lack diversity these systems are embedded with unrepresentative worldviews and stereotyping which reinforce traditional gender roles.

Organizational Structure, Membership, and Funding

This project is created by artists - technologists Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga in collaboration with an ever evolving community of self-identifying women.

Specializations, Methods and Tools

Activism, discursive design, community participation.


Major Projects and Events

See: https://womenreclaimingai.com/

Analysis and Lessons Learned

Publications

Aga, B. and Manton, C. (2021) ‘Women Reclaiming AI’. In: M. Wiberg, with A. Taylor and D. Rosner (eds.) INTERACTIONS, Volume XXVIII.1Association for Computing Machinery: New York, p. 96.

See Also

References

Artificia, Featured Project, “Women Reclaiming AI”, [website feature] (January 2021)

Interactions, XXVIII.1, “Women Reclaiming AI”, [magazine] (January – February 2021)

AI LAB Radio, #4: Birgitte Aga & Coral Manton, [intervjue] (October 2020)

Ars Electronica, Out of the Box, “Women Reclaiming AI”, [website feature] (2019)


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