Dismantling Human-Centred AI: A Feminist Intervention (FAIF)
Materiality, Society and the More-than-Human 2025 - A BSA New Materialisms Study Group International Zoom Seminar Series
8 December 2025 (14:00-15:00 GMT/UTS)
Online
Speaker
- Dr Tanja Kubes (Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin) - Dismantling Human-Centred AI: A Feminist Intervention (FAIF)
Abstract
As artificial intelligence increasingly reshapes scientific practice, economic structures, public discourse, and intimate dimensions of everyday life, the urgency of critical intervention becomes undeniable. Human-Centred AI (HCAI) has emerged as the dominant paradigm promising to align technological development with values of fairness, equity, and inclusion.
My presentation develops a sustained critique of HCAI from intersecting feminist, posthumanist and neo-materialist perspectives. I demonstrate how contemporary HCAI frameworks remain fundamentally Eurocentric in their epistemic assumptions, androcentric in their design logics, and anthropocentric in their ethical horizons. Driven by capitalist imperatives of efficiency and market value rather than commitments to genuine sustainability, HCAI systematically ignores and intensifies global inequities while externalising profound ecological costs onto marginalised communities and non-human life.
In response, I propose a Feminist AI Framework (FAIF)—a conceptual architecture that integrates insights from more-than-human anthropology¸ gender studies and posthumanism to fundamentally reconfigure our understanding of intelligence, agency, and technological relations.
The seminar workshop will be delivered via Zoom.
Registration
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