Hello, I am Himanshi Parmar, student of MK Bhavnagar University. This blog i have written as a response to Thinking Activity, Which is a Part of my academic Work. Which we get after each unit. In this blog, i am going to discuss about what is cyberfeminism and Artificial Intelligence and the Unconscious Biases.
Definition and meaning of Cyberfeminism.
Cyberfeminism is a Social and artistic practices on the net with feminist ideological content. Feminist movement interpreting the evolution of cybernetics as allowing the development of a culture in which inequalities are eradicated and traditional gender relations and stereotypes are defied (for instance, through the experimentation with gender identities or the creation of sisterhood networks on the Internet), empowering women and marking a shift away from their traditional symbolic representation as technologically ignorant.
Third definition of Cyberfeminism is, "Discipline within feminism that sees cyberspace and virtual reality as neutral realms in terms of gender. This school of thought visions a society beyond gendered bodies where women can communicate and act outside the restrictions imposed by patriarchal societies."
Origin
The term cyberfeminism was coined by VNS Matrix (read Venus Matrix), an ustralian artist collective active between 1991 and 1997, who, inspired by Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, wrote the Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century.Their art was a “mission to hijack the toys from technocowboys and remap cyberculture with a feminist bent” (Schaffer 1999:150) and as such was concerned with subverting the perceived androcentrism of new technologies, for instance by re-imagining “the clitoris [as] a direct line to the matrix“.
Cyberfeminism
Cyberfeminism could imagine ways of linking the historical and philosophical practices of feminism to contemporary feminist projects and networks both on and off the Net, and to the material lives and experiences of women in the integrated circuit, taking full account of age, race, class, and economic differences.For example: Cyberfeminism can be a critique at equality in cyberspace, challenge the gender stereotype in the cyberspace, examine the gender relationship in cyberspace, examine the collaboration between human and technology, examine the relationship between women and technology and more.
Cyberfeminism arose partly as a reaction to "the pessimism of the 1980s feminist approaches that stressed the inherently masculine nature of techno-science", a counter movement against the 'toys for boys' perception of new Internet technologies. According to a text published by Trevor Scott Milford, another contributor to the rise of cyberfeminism was the lack of female discourse and participation online concerning topics that were impacting women. As cyberfeminist artist Faith Wilding argued: "If feminism is to be adequate to its cyberpotential then it must mutate to keep up with the shifting complexities of social realities and life conditions as they are changed by the profound impact communications technologies and techno science have on all our lives.Donna Haraway is the inspiration and genesis for cyberfeminism with her 1985 essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" which was reprinted in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991).Cyberfeminism is considered a predecessor to networked feminism. Cyberfeminism also has a relationship to the field of feminist science and technology studies.
Cyberfeminism intends to empower women by making them assured while reclaiming space around them as it is another extension of the feminist theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that women have the right to social, political and economic equality and the fact that feminist theory and practice is essential in exposing and disrupting the sexist, racist, heterosexist, classist, and ableist.
TED TALK by Kriti Sharma.
Watch the video here,
Here i have referred Ted Talk of Kriti Sharma about how to keep human biases out of everything. The talk is about AL and biases, she also included her personal experience. We have technology like Alexa and Siri, which has women voice and we keep giving them different works like to sing, talk, switch on the fan and this that. Which is quite problematic that why they use women voice in making working model, and not man. Where eles when we talk about robots that help to make decision,full of ideas, and working at some authentic, respectable place, it always has male voice. When children grows up looking it they creats biases about the work distribution of male and female.
Also Kriti Sharma told about the technology that made by White people. They always creat people like them white with silky, smooth hair. While black people are they put into datk light and inferior. Here we find racism and AL biases.
Loomba also discussed about,solutions for this major issues gives three points that are,
1. Be aware of our own biases.
2. Make sure that diverse team is making technolocame
3. Give AI diverse experience and atmosphere to learn from.
This how she pointed out how AL filled with gender biases. The technology and AL are also human creation, so unconsciously it came into gender biases.
TED TALK by Robin Hauser
Watch the video here,
Robin Hauser focuses on ‘Can we protect AI from our Biased?’
Further Robin Hauser try to make sure the solutions of AL biases. It is very important to take the problem of AL biases seriously. If we not find the solution today, then must just like our society, AL and other technology will also become biased. In today's world we have decided the role of men and women in society and that behavior, that role we are inputting into AL and technology also, that will going to be so problematic.
Since childhood child often taught what their role are, for example whenever any guest come our home, the work of giving them water that said to girl only not boy even they are sitting together. There is relatable interesting rhymes in hindi,
Thus to conclude we can say that if the biases overpowered technology and AL, it will take decades to get bias free.
I hope my blog will be helpful to you. Thank you.
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