[Air-L] Talk with Paola Ricaurte

[Jennifer Pybus]

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Title: Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale

In this work, I argue that hegemonic AI is becoming a more powerful force capable of perpetrating global violence through three epistemic processes: datafication (extraction and dispossession), algorithmization (algorithmic mediation and governmentality) and automation (violence, inequality and displacement of responsibility). These articulated mechanisms lead to global classification orders and epistemic, economic, social, cultural and environmental inequality. Hegemonic AI can be thought of as a bio-necro-technopolitical machine that serves to maintain the capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal order of the world. To make this point, the proposed approach bridges the macro and micropolitical, building on Suely Rolnik’s call for understanding the effects of the macropolitical in the micropolitical, as well as what feminist black scholar Patricia Hill Collins made visible about oppressive systems operating at the structural, institutional and individual levels. I advocate for a feminist and decolonial ethics concerned with the preservation of life and the shared responsibility of AI harms to the majority of the planet.

Dr. Paola Ricaurte is associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Together with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías, she co-founded Tierra Común, a network of academics, practitioners and activists interested in decolonizing data. She is a member of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and leads the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist AI Research Network. In addition to her academic work, she participates in civil society initiatives to promote digital rights and the development of public interest technologies.



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Dr. Jennifer Pybus (she/her)
Canada Research Chair in Data Democracy and AI
Department of Politics

YORK UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
4700 Keele Street • Toronto ON • Canada • M3J 1P3
T: 416-736-5686. W: https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/jpybus/

Recent Publications
Pybus, J., & Coté, M. (2021). Did you give permission? Datafication in the mobile ecosystem. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1877771

Blanke, T., & Pybus, J. (2020). The Material Conditions of Platforms - Monopolisation through Decentralisation. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120971632

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