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Critiques of big data, artificial intelligence and the political economies of platforms have been mounting in recent years, with scholars exposing their biased algorithms, extractivist logics and discriminatory outcomes. How, then, can those of us who work with AI, data science and technology use such tools in the service of equity, justice and liberation? Drawing from my forthcoming book Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (MIT Press, 2024), I describe a case study of building participatory AI/ML systems with grassroots human rights defenders.  Throughout the talk, I will highlight resonances and tensions between our design process and the principles of data feminism, showing how we tried to operationalize these principles in interactive digital tools and machine learning classifiers. It's not all heroic – even with a robust participatory process, many ethical and political and technical questions remain. I hope to surface these to the community so that we may think together about the limitations of designing for justice in hostile political economies.

  • Sara Falkson
  • Jonathan Chinen

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