Symposia
Feminist AI and Collective Wellbeing
18th & 19th November 2025
In the ‘Feminist AI and Collective Wellbeing’ symposium, we invited researchers, artists, and practitioners to explore and contest the promises and pitfalls of AI in shaping collective wellbeing.
Promises of AI include better societal wellbeing through improved healthcare, relieved workloads, or efficient usage of natural resources. Yet not everyone’s wellbeing counts evenly, as AI simultaneously depends on and disrupts collectivity, for instance, through its pressure on shared environmental resources, worker health, and data exploitation and extractivism. How can we reimagine these dynamics, and centre collective wellbeing so that it becomes a basis for caring and sustaining relationships around AI development and implementation?
Through international keynotes and a workshop on art-based AI inquiry, we invited participants to reflect on these questions:
What collectives are prioritized in the development of AI? Whose wellbeing is valued, and whose is erased to maintain the wellbeing of others?
How can communities engage with AI on their own terms? What material resources, infrastructures, or type of data would they need to do so?
What collective futures and imaginaries might we create together, rooted in shared wellbeing rather than extractive logics?
Can AI ever be truly aligned with collective wellbeing, or are there cases where the most ‘caring’ act might be to refuse or resist AI altogether?
19th & 20th November 2024
Feminist AI: Shaping Ethical Futures
This event marked the launch of the Feminist Generative AI Lab, where we explored the intersections of artificial intelligence, ethics, and feminist approaches to technology. This unique event brought together thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners to engage in a dialogue about the future of AI through a feminist lens. It is a conversation for all genders about less dominant alternatives, bridging binary oppositions, and embracing pluralism and differences in the design and development of AI. Our keynote speakers presented cutting-edge research and insights, followed by a panel discussion that explored critical questions about responsible AI development, bias mitigation, and the societal and environmental impact of AI technologies.
The event also included a PhD workshop. This workshop investigated feminist approaches to generative AI by bringing together PhDs and other scholars from several fields to engage in cross- and inter-disciplinary discussions.
Participants had the opportunity to share their ideas and gain valuable feedback on their projects.