This Blog-post is a response to the thinking activity task on 'Cyberfeminism: Artificial Intelligence and the Unconscious Biases' given by our professor Dr.Dilip Barad Sir. To know about the task, CLICK HERE.
This is the age of a heavily media-driven, technologized, and globalized network society.
Feminist studies of the relationship between gender and technology looked at technological artifacts, technological practices, systems of knowledge, institutions, and competencies.
Observe Cyberculture as a revolutionary social experiment with the potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. Cyberfeminisms seek ways to link feminism with contemporary feminist projects and networks both on and off the Net. (Nayar)
Cyberfeminism itself, a growing area of thought and study, is not a unified set of ideas concerning women and new technologies. Cyber feminists explore many areas of theory: that women are naturally suited to using the internet, as both share important commonalities; that women can best empower themselves by becoming fluent in online communication and acquiring technological expertise; and that women would do best to study how power and knowledge are constructed in technological systems, and how and where feminists can disrupt and change these practices for the betterment of all members of society.
Unconscious gender biases
It is still in our society that we make decisions through our unconscious gender biases. The same is in cyborgs. Like Siri, the Alexa algorithm a female gender. As we know that unconscious ideas can be installed in AI and they exactly follow also. These unconscious biases can be forced to AI to act as feminists feel the unconscious gender biases. So it is totally upon us to avoid these types of algorithms applied in robots or AIS. If it is applied, there might be no difference between humans and robots. We helped Artificial Intelligence for our basic purpose of making our life fast and easily available things.
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