Gender as Escape Room – Artificial Intelligence as Catalyst

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2024.221

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Digitalization, Discrimination, Gender, Intersectionality, Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) intensify the urgency to overcome altogether gender as existing racist, classist and patriarchal gender order. This means that AI acts as a catalyst to realize even more urgently an egalitarian gender order which is guaranteed on a legal realm since long. Thereby, AI makes it even more obvious that this endeavor – like in an escape room – can be successful only as a collective effort. The paper presents as examples important studies to demonstrate this interrelation and suggests an intersectional approach to gender which transcends binaries and stereotypical classifications. It discusses participatory and activist approaches and envisions justice based research on digitization and AI.

Author Biography

Waltraud Ernst, Johannes Kepler University Linz

Waltraud Ernst, Dr. phil., M.A., philosopher, has been senior researcher at the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria since 2010. 2001–2003 she was a research fellow at the department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. 2004–2010 she was manager of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies at the HAWK and University of Hildesheim. 2016 she received the Käthe-Leichter-Preis. 2018 she was visiting professor at the TU Dresden. Main research fields: conceptions of gender in technosciences (STS); feminist philosophy of science and epistemology; concepts, theories and methods of Gender Studies.

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2024-06-19

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Ernst, W. (2024). Gender as Escape Room – Artificial Intelligence as Catalyst. Open Gender Journal, 8. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2024.221

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