Feminist AI for/by the Majority World

Oxford Intersections

Team: Diana Mosquera

DECOLONIAL AIGLOBAL MAJORITYINTERSECTIONALITY

At the beginning of the year we contributed a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of AI and Society, one of the most influential global academic compilations on artificial intelligence and society. The chapter, entitled Feminist AI for/by the Majority World: Feminist AI Research Network, Latin American and Caribbean Hub, gathers learnings, tensions and possibilities that emerge when designing technologies from a feminist, situated and collective approach. The text is based on our direct experience developing different projects in areas such as feminist urbanism to make visible the access to public space and green areas in peripheral neighborhoods, migration and the governance of natural resources with emphasis on water with the Yaqui community of Vícam in Sonora Mexico.

Through this experience, we discuss how artificial intelligence can be built that not only recognizes local contexts, but also reconfigures the power relations that have historically permeated technological development. This contribution edited by Oxford University Press, together with global voices that think critically about AI governance, represents an important milestone: it opens space for the experiences of the Global South to be part of the strategic discussions about the future of these technologies.This recognition also reaffirms our conviction that artificial intelligence can and should be thought beyond corporate capitalist interests; it can be a tool to strengthen collective processes, expand social justice and respond to the realities of historically excluded communities.