This article examines how AI and digital technologies, when deployed in contexts like industrialised agribusiness, reinforce extractive economic models that harm communities and ecosystems. It critiques narratives of technological neutrality and "innovation" that mask these harms, arguing that AI serves entrenched alliances between corporate and financial power.

This article interrogates the possibility of a feminist and human rights approach to AI, arguing that current systems are shaped by profit-driven models that reinforce existing inequalities and power structures. Drawing on feminist and critical perspectives, it challenges narratives of human replacement, emphasising that AI cannot replicate lived experience, care, or connection.

This article critically examines the call to “centre the human” in AI, arguing that it often reinforces exclusionary ideas of humanity shaped by colonial, patriarchal, and ableist histories. The discussion proposes moving beyond binary debates of rejection or embrace, advocating for relational, consent-based approaches to data and design that prioritise care, accountability, and alternative imaginaries of creativity and technological futures.

APC.org, GenderIT.org, and Global Voices are collaborating for a series aimed to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people. With the introduction of generative AI, this connection has increasingly been lost, as people have turned to AI-based tools for answers instead of asking peers. This series is aimed at addressing the very human need to feel connected, to continue to be part of a community, and to feel a sense of belonging.