Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Radical Emancipatory Values”
Description Our fuel is the desperation of screen-saturation and lack of connectedness that this weird year has set in our bodies, so many things happening, and us, seeing each other framed by little screens… Carbon intensity of online connections. How not to die in another ethics webinar. Further information The physical/mental intensity and many varied costs of digital existence. The …
Description If we were all attending a conference in person, and I was vegan for political reasons, no one would make me eat the ham sandwich, however we have no space to refuse unethical data-driven systems in work or in life. This ritual was an exercise of scaffolding civic disobedience and claiming meaningful consent. Consent forms are not enough! Further …
Description A dread that is left from reading authors busy in the work of exposing ethical troubles of AI. The sensation, the bitter taste in our mouths, the thought: If all of this is true, why do we want this to develop? Less ethics more politics and even activism Working against the realisation of ethics white washing and the 3 …
Description It was not a dance, we designed a human algorithm Seeing the code is not enough. Transparency is not neutral: whose transparency is it? Further information Transparency of the politics and economics, as integral and governing elements of the system; transparency of the relations human to human through systems. Transparency is becoming a fashionable item in technology developers’ lexicon. …
Description This is our response to “it’s not my domain” syndrome Demanding accountability to the corporate almighties Care for the human connection, figuring the value constellation. Further information Accountability means being answerable for one’s choices, actions and expectations. It also applies to how answerable services and systems are and how these should ‘account for’ their affordances in intelligible ways. Who …
Description We were inspired by Ritual Design, Donna Haraway, Ethics of AI, Data Feminism, Cyberqueer Movements, Lesbian Technologies for Liberation, Indigenous Protocols for AI, the point was not to talk about ethics, but rather to embody it. Against binary differentiation Further information Among Indigenous North American culture, Two-Spirit refers to individuals whose spirits are a blending of male and female …
Description We designed a call for collective power in the face of one-worlding data colonization Thinking-feeling through our borders Further information Sovereignty refers to the ability of anyone to have control and ownership over their own data. This requires systems to be able to identify and verify data’s geolocation. This value is about asserting control over the AI systems that …
Description Responding with our bodies to hidden labour that AI exploits. Translating concepts into the body, embodying values. Exploring other ways of knowing – epistemological shake up! Further information Our embodied experience is subjective, and thus not something that can be accessed, interpreted and synthesised (known) by algorithmic systems. The “us” AI systems seek to know emerges out of our …
Description Making kin with the machine Practicing the pluriverse Further information This is much influenced by the work of Jason Edward Lewis (we recommend to see his work if you are not familiar, it is very practical and absolutely inspiring https://jasonlewis.org), and particularly an article he wrote with Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite (2018). This value focuses on …
Description Making Space and building capacities to respond Imagine a better possibility of both AI and pluriversal ethical practice that is creative, participative and a political exercise Further information We are joining the sortilege of Donna Haraway’s (2018) neologism of response-ability (p.p 128-133) to propose a pluriversal ethical practice that comes through the encounters with others, and that uses art …
Description Metaphysical Nexus: what it means to be human Celebrating more-than-human co-dependence Echoes from the future and from faraway prophecies: the fantasy of AI Further information We are made of relations. AI is no different. All too often, however, those relations are concealed, made invisible, dismissed as unimportant. But the relations we hold between each other, the worlds we live …
Description Decolonizing Euro-centric Ethics Exploring other ways of doing ethics together Further information This value uses post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing advances in artificial intelligence. It supports abolitionist movements that resist and fight to end policing, criminalization, and carceral logics and technologies in all their forms. “The growth of community-controlled technologies, of mutual aid and …
