AI EthicsBooks

A pioneering work exploring feminism in the digital age, analyzing how the internet, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies are reshaping gender relations and feminist practice.

Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy trace how voice assistants, domestic robots, and intimate technologies encode wifework into the future home, then propose a feminist reboot.

Kate Crawford maps AI through minerals, energy, hidden labor, training data, classification, and state surveillance, revealing the extraction and concentrated power beneath machine intelligence.

It proposes seven practical principles that bring power analysis, intersectionality, situated knowledge, and co-design into data work itself.

Ruha Benjamin’s New Jim Code framework shows how racial hierarchy can be engineered, hidden by defaults, intensified through surveillance, or repackaged as a benevolent technical fix.

Drawing on experience as both programmer and journalist, Meredith Broussard dismantles the belief that technology is always the best answer and maps the limits between computation, judgment, and public responsibility.

Cathy O’Neil explains how scoring, prediction, and risk models amplify existing inequalities across work, education, finance, and policing.