Mother of Invention
Rivqa Rafael, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Seanan McGuire, D.K. Mok, Bogi Takács, Stephanie Lai, Joanne Anderton, Sandra McDonald, Lee Cope, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Cat Sparks, Rosaleen Love, John Chu, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Octavia Cade, E.C. Myers, Nisi Shawl, Justina Robson, Jen White, Kaaron Warren, E.H. Mann, Soumya Sundar Mukherjee, Meryl Stenhouse, Lev Mirov
4.00 · 2 ratings · Published: 01 Sep 2018
From Pygmalion and Galatea to Frankenstein, Ex Machina and Person of Interest, the fictional landscape so often frames cisgender men as the creators of artificial life, leading to the same kinds of stories being told over and over. We want to bring some genuine revolution to the way that artificial intelligence stories are told, and how they intersect with gender identity, parenthood, sexuality, war, and the future of our species. How can we interrogate the gendered assumptions around the making of robots compared with the making of babies? Can computers learn to speak in a code beyond the (gender) binary?
If necessity is the mother of invention, what exciting AI might come to exist in the hands of a more diverse range of innovators?
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