In this episode, we are joined by Angèle Albrengues to discuss how current EU legal frameworks fail to address the risks of gender discrimination associated with artificial intelligence models. We discuss how AI technology reinforces the biases it is fed, reproducing inequality in both overt and covert ways. We highlight how sexism, misogyny, and gender-based violence cannot be escaped in digital spaces. Despite the prevalence of this issue, we explore how AI’s lack of transparency and lack of legal personhood makes it challenging to legislatively address the discrimination it perpetuates. Angèle discusses how existing frameworks can be used to confront this issue, and we consider whether AI can be reprogrammed to champion the feminist perspective.

If you are interested in this topic, here are some further reading suggestions:

• ‘Weight of gender in artificial intelligence models’ implementation in the European Union non-discrimination laws’ by Angèle Albrengues and Lerong Lu https://www.elspub.com/papers/j/1912463123407900672
• ‘Generative AI exists because of the transformer’ written by Madhumita Murgia for the Financial Times https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
• ‘Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An Overview’ by Suzie Dunn https://www.cigionline.org/publications/technology-facilitated-gender-based-violence-overview/
• New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates
• To check out the charity Angele works for: https://stopfisha.org/, https://www.instagram.com/stopfisha/

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