Cyberfeminism—a capacious term the Index seeks to both bring into view and complicate—asks us to consider how the integration of technology into our lives should affect our understanding of the gendered self and how technology itself can serve as a tool of liberation, oppression, and intellectual dissemination.

This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining and challenging unequal power in data science. Here, we present a rationale for why feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research, rearticulate the... See more

The seven principles of data feminism are as follows:

• Examine power. Data feminism begins by analysing how power operates in the world.


• Challenge power. Data feminism commits to challenging unequal power structures and working toward justice.


• Elevate emotion and embodiment. Data feminism teaches us to value multiple forms of knowledge, including

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