Definition
Artificial intelligence is the project of creating an artificial agent that has the same kind of intelligence as humans. It is found in many different aspects of our daily lives, e.g., virtual assistants, search engines, games, and health care. Oppression is a particular type of harm – it is group-based and systemic. People face oppressive harms as members of an oppressed social group (e.g., gender, race, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, or (dis)ability). Through technologies such as virtual assistants, search engines, robots, and algorithms, artificial intelligence is contributing to gender-based oppression.
Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) has had a huge impact on societies throughout the globe in just a few short years since going mainstream. The technology has given us new powers and abilities to understand our world, and it is being heralded by some as ushering in a better future (for discussion see Russell and Norvig 2019; Kaku 2018). Nevertheless,...
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Kerr, A.D. (2021). Artificial Intelligence, Gender, and Oppression. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95687-9_107
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