Lecture: Feminism Confronts AI: The Gender Relations of Digitalisation
Date: Tuesday 15 October 2024
Time: 5.00pm
Location: Maplethorpe Hall, St Hugh’s College
Please join us at St Hugh’s College on Tuesday 15 October 2024 for the annual lecture on AI entitled: “Feminism Confronts AI: The Gender Relations of Digitalisation”, which will be delivered by Professor Judy Wajcman who is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute, and visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute.
This talk will examine the gender relations of digitalisation, with a particular focus on AI as the most contemporary expression of this. While there is increasing recognition that technologies are both a reflection and crystallisation of society, Judy will argue that there is still insufficient focus on the ways in which gendered power relations are embedded in technoscience. This is as much the case with AI as it was with previous waves of technological change. The systemic under-representation of women in the AI ecosystem poses the risk of encoding and amplifying existing patterns of gender inequities. So gender equality in the leadership of AI is not only an equal opportunity issue, but also a matter of how the world we live in is designed and for whom.
The lecture will begin at 5.00pm in Maplethorpe Hall, followed by a drinks reception at 6.15pm. To attend, please complete the registration form below.
Please note, by registering for and attending the event you consent to photography from this event being used on St Hugh’s College website, social media channels and printed promotional material.
