The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism

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What is good technology Is good technology even possible And how can feminism help us work towards it The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions and provocations in the field of feminism and technology. While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not new, the embedded nature of feminist perspectives pulls out whether this perceived goodness or wrongness might actually impact our lives in the 21st century. This book explores both the radical possibilities of technology to disrupt practices of patriarchy, colonialism, racism and beyond but also provides a significant critique of how we can contain the ethical possibilities of entities we cannot predict. In exploring unjust technological practices and engaging critical voices in the tech industry, the existing moral issues are brought to light as well as the possible ethical quagmires. This book opens a new space of discussion on digital technologies one that insists that the future of AI is an urgent feminist issue.

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Kerry McInerney is a research associates at the University of Cambridge, UK and one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022. She is co-host of the podcast The Good Robot and contributor to The Guilty Feminist project. Eleanor Drage is a research associate at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022. She is co-host of the podcast The Good Robot and contributor to The Guilty Feminist project.