Hello friends,
I am Nidhi Dave student of Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. This blog response of my thinking Activity. This thinking Activity given by professor Dr. Dilip Barad sir. Here i discuss about what is the Feminism and cyber feminism.
Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, exploring and re-making the Internet, cyberspace and new-media technologies in general.
What is Cyberfeminism?
Cornelia Sollfrank who is the famous Cyberfeminist from the Old Boys Network states that:
"Cyberfeminism is a myth. A myth is a story of unidentifiable origin, or of different origins. A myth is based on one central story which is retold over and over in different variations. A myth denies one history as well as one truth, and implies a search for truth in the spaces, in the differences between the different stories. Speaking about Cyberfeminism as a myth, is not intended to mystify it, it simply indicates that Cyberfeminism only exists in plural."
Cyberfeminism: Artificial Intelligence and the Unconscious Biases:
Cyberfeminism appeared in the 1980s and founded on the ideas post-humanist feminist thinker Donna Haraway expresses in her A Cyborg Manifesto. In this manifesto, she lays the groundwork for the concept of the internet being a revolutionary tool to overthrow patriarchy, destroy the existing gender binary and achieve feminist liberation. She sees the internet as a new neutral space women need to ally with and that needs to be shaped by women in a way that will allow them to overthrow the existing social order.
Kirti Sharma - How to keep human bias out of Al?
Kirti Sharma, who has several degrees in computer science and has been building robots from the age of 15, says that based on her appearance and gender it is regularly assumed she doesn’t know much about artificial intelligence.
In her talk she gives examples of when AI takes these biases and reinforces them: men are more likely to be programmers and historically outnumber women in this field; based on this data, an algorithm designed for recruitment purposes can assume that male applicants are preferable and filter out female candidates, she explains.
“This is not about the talent; this is about an elitism in AI that says a programmer needs to look like a certain person,” says Sharma.
Sharma says these biases are reinforced by the genders we assign to AI-powered devices. She gives the examples of Siri and Alexa, AI technologies with female voices which we are used to giving orders to. On the other hand, more powerful AI programmes such as Watson are designated “male”.
Robin Hauser: Can we protect AI from our biases?
Robin Hauser, tells about her experience working with AI and the biases that can develop by humans teaching the machines and how to avoid these biases when creating algorithms. ”
Robin is the director and producer of cause‐based documentary films at Finish Line Features, Inc. and Unleashed Productions, Inc. As a business woman, long time professional photographer and social entrepreneur, Robin brings her leadership skills, creative eye and passion to her documentary film projects. Her artistic vision and experience in the business world afford her a unique perspective on what it takes to motivate an audience. Her most recent award‐winning film, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, and has caught the eye of the international tech industry and of policy makers and educators in Washington, DC and abroad. Robin is currently directing and producing Bias, a documentary about unconscious bias and how it affects our lives socially and in the workplace.Documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser argues that we need to have a conversation about how AI should be governed and ask who is responsible for overseeing the ethical standards of these supercomputers. "We need to figure this out now," she says. "Because once skewed data gets into deep learning machines, it's very difficult to take it out."
Our experience of cyber space and women's identity:
So for understanding these spaces of biases of AI. So as Kriti mentioned when she first applied for AI she received comments and queries. It’s about gender biases. In this similar way when any girl puts her own identity she might receive queries first from there family members, importantly males of the family. If the same thing happened to us we have to observe such things. Like till the date some girls have not their own Gmail Id, Facebook Id and so many things. So patriarchy is also described. Women or girls make a fake Id on Facebook to hide their gender because they don’t want any kind of hurdles.
Cyberfeminism is a very interesting term for discussing and thinking. It's very interesting to see that still some women are facing some kind of problem Technology with social media and they are getting afraid of using such a thing. So we have to write our own experience about cyber feminism. I had the same experience when I started Facebook, Instagram so at that time I hid my profile and my identity because I was afraid that I might be talking wrong. Still i have not Sher some personal think in social media and photos also. Slowly and steadily we are coming out from this kind of fear.
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