I had the pleasure to talk at this conference organised at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Reclaiming Agency in the Age of AI: Afro-Feminist Ethics, Digital Colonialism and Counter-Epistemologies
The conference Critical AI Studies situates Artificial Intelligence within the framework of Cultural Materialism, Critical AI Studies, Black Studies, and Afro-Feminism, approaching AI as a socio-technical formation grounded in data extraction, labour regimes, and global power asymmetries. Central to this perspective is the recognition of data labour as a foundational yet largely invisible component of AI systems, encompassing practices of data generation, annotation, moderation, maintenance, and care.