Decolonial AI Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial
Date of the event
Dienstag, 14 Mai 2024
Time of the event
06:00 pm – 08:00 pm
Place of the event
online
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Raziye Buse Çetin presents insights into the intertwining of Artificial Intelligence with colonial legacies and the necessity for a decolonial realignment in her lecture. Artificial Intelligence, often celebrated for its ability to analyze and interpret complex datasets, unconsciously reflects and reinforces existing social hierarchies and power structures. These technologies are not neutral; they are embedded in the languages, values, and practices that they help create and by which they are shaped.
Terms like "artificial" and "intelligence" are culturally charged and often distorted by the perspectives of those who develop the technologies – predominantly Western, wealthy, male actors. This linguistic imprinting influences not only how technologies are developed but also how they are applied.
Raziye Buse Çetin will discuss how decolonial approaches can help recognize and break these patterns. By questioning and redesigning the assumptions underlying these technologies, we can find ways to make AI more just and inclusive. The lecture will demonstrate how a decolonial perspective can help address power asymmetries and incorporate the diversity of human experience into the design and application of AI. Following the lecture, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with the expert. This lecture is a critical contribution to ongoing debates about the role of AI in society and provides a framework to understand how technological developments reflect and reinforce existing colonial structures. Additionally, it is part of the series "Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial."
The series "Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial" opens critical perspectives on digital transformation processes, questioning, among other things, their effects on marginalized communities. Events from 2023 can be viewed here:
Externer Link: https://youtu.be/uEhhZwumoEE?si=3aFFT0xgEf_6ZfxM
Raziye Buse Çetin is an AI researcher, consultant, and artist. Her work revolves around the ethics, impacts, and governance of AI systems, aiming to demystify the impacts of AI technologies through research, policy advocacy, and art. Buse is a co-founder of the AI research, advocacy, and art platform Externer Link: Dreaming Beyond AI, and works as a creative strategist and research communicator for Externer Link: AI Forensics. More information about Buse's work can be found at Externer Link: https://rbc.xyz.
Moderation:
Francesca Schmidt (BpB, Department of Political Education and Plural Democracy)
Co-Moderation:
Miriam Fahimi is a research assistant at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, where she is doing her doctorate in Science and Technology Studies.
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Event address:
Zoom
Organizer:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (The Federal Agency for Civic Education)