Feminist talk

As AI continues to evolve at speed, concerns around its embedded biases and systemic harms raise urgent questions for the future of gender justice, human rights, and the broader vision of a feminist internet. In the face of its growing inevitability, it becomes necessary to ask whether a truly feminist AI is possible, and in what conditions. Hija Kamran writes.

 
hija

Hija Kamran (she/her) is the GenderIT Editor and content coordinator for APC's Women's Rights…

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Contrary to popular belief, AI isn't a new technology. It has, in fact, been in development since the 1950s. Zainab Durrani explores whether its commercialisation, as we know it today, has taken the technology, and its implications for humans and the environment, too far.

 
Zainab Durrani

Zainab Durrani is a lawyer by education and a digital rights activist by profession, based in…

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This article contains key takeaways and summaries of the discussions and talks about AI-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV) that happened during the sessions at the Open Tech Camp and Rightscon in February 2025. Reported by Rohini Lakshane.

 
Rohini Lakshane

Rohini Lakshané is an interdisciplinary researcher, technologist and Wikimedian. …

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With an increasing commercialisation of AI-based apps and tools, the existing inequalities and tech facilitated violence have found another avenue to perpetuate in the digital spaces. In this article, Rohini Lakshane argues the need for robust solutions focused on protection and guarantee of rights of those affected by this violence.

 
Rohini Lakshane

Rohini Lakshané is an interdisciplinary researcher, technologist and Wikimedian. …

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As South Asian LGBTQIA+ folk navigate already unsafe and uncertain societies, digital spaces have increasingly become equally risky with the corporate greed that profits off their data at the expense of their already at-risk privacy. Debarati Das argues that this type of digital colonialism has far-reaching implications on the queer communities in the region.

 
Debarati Das

Debarati Das is a queer non-binary feminist based in India. They're an independent consultant…

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Amidst India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025, governments on both sides of the tense border blocked online content to stop "misleading and provocative" information from spreading. Seerat Khan explores whether Big Tech's compliance with such directives are in the interest of social media users accessing platforms to access information in times of political instability.

 
Seerat Khan

Seerat Khan is the Programs and Comms Lead at the Digital Rights Foundation in Pakistan, and has…