Meet the AI Moment: Using Afrofuturism and Technowomanism Together as Technological Practice
Abstract
Much ink has been spilled writing about the capabilities, advancements, and ails of artificial intelligence. Our workshop endeavors to bring together each of these discussions under a framing that centers People of the Global Majority and their concerns and hopes for AI. The lenses through which we will discuss and discern are Afrofuturism, a centering of the African diaspora in a multifaceted praxis of futuring across genres, and technowomanism, an ethical praxis grounded in the wisdom of Black women. Over two days, our collective will deconstruct and discover a toolkit for designing AI applications that can honor and uplift not only People of the Global Majority but all of society.
