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EU guidelines on trustworthy AI posits that one of the key aspects of creating AI systems is accountability, the routes to which lead through, among other things, explainability and transparency of AI systems. While working on AI Forensics project, which positions accountability as a matter […]
Entering the field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) entails encountering different terms that the field is based on. Numerous concepts are mentioned in articles, talks and conferences and it is crucial for researchers to familiarize themselves with them. To mention some, there’s explainability, interpretability, understandability, […]
When thinking of computer science – what images pop into one’s head and what can those images tell us about the discipline as well as interconnected societal expectations and norms? In this short post we report on our research into gendered codings of computer science. […]
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) as a design perspective towards explainable AI can benefit from feminist perspectives. This post explores some dimensions of feminist approaches to explainability and human-centred explainable AI.
Critical Tools for Machine Learning or CritML is a project that brings together critical intersectional feminist theory and machine learning systems design. The goal of the project is to provide ways to work with critical theoretical concepts that are rooted in intersectional feminist, anti-racist, post/de-colonial […]
In 2022 an increasing number of digital businesses are building their business models on data collection, its usage, and further processing. Data and especially so-called big data holds the potential for a lot of innovation and empowers the advancement of all-day-technologies, knowledge engineering and the […]
Technical research and development are embedded in social contexts, afforded by stakeholders, their goals and interests, values and assumptions, and the social and professional structures they are part of. The choice of research topics and many development decisions start from rather general, standard assumptions about […]
Guest post by Myriam Hernández Domínguez In January 2020 I was a fellow at the fantastic GeDIS group (Gender/Diversity in Informatics Systems). In this post I would like to share a brief summary of my research and how I got to be interested in the […]
In September we – Goda, Loren and Claude – presented a paper at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in New Orleans. We were (digitally) part of an amazing panel “Feminist Technoscience by Other Means: Reconfiguring Research Practices for World-Making Beyond the […]
In September this article appeared on GenderIT.org, feminist reflection on Internet policies. Here is a short excerpt from the first part of the article: When I proposed this article, my aim was to share my research and the role of power in participation. I was […]