- Emily M. Bender
- Ruha Benjamin
- Abeba Birhane
- Meredith Broussard
- Joy Buolamwini
- Joanna Bryson
- Kate Crawford studies the material impact of AI systems
- Timnit Gebru
- Alex Hanna
- Sasha Luccioni studies AI and its climate impact @ HuggingFace
- Milagros Miceli focuses on conditions and power dynamics in data work behind machine learning systems
- Margaret Mitchell
- Safiya U. Noble
- Beth Singler studies the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of robotics and AIS
- Sahana Udupa - media anthropologist and founder of the Center for Digital Dignity
- Shannon Vallor
- Aimee van Wynsberghe focuses on AI ethics, Sustainable AI frameworks and policies
- Shoshana Zuboff
research centers & projects
Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and policy research on AI
Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE, Bonn), led by Aimee van Wynsberghe, focuses on developing research and policy guidelines for the green, proportionate and sustainable development and use of AI
Knowing Machines a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of machine learning systems. Led by Kate Crawford
Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power (Mellon Sawyer sminar at the University of Cambridge that took place from May 2020 to December 2021)
academic journals
Critical AI - an interdisciplinary journal based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis
video channels, talks
Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE, Bonn) YouTube channel
projects & groups
Women in AI Ethics Medium publication
curated reading lists
- Critical Algorithm Studies reading list by Tarleton Gillespie and Nick Seaver »
- Critical Dataset Studies reading list @ knowingmachines »
- Ethical tech issues reading list by Emanuel Moss, based on the talk by Janet Haven »
- List of 18 books by female scholars, going beyond the AI hype »
podcasts & livestreams
- Knowing Machines podcasts
- All Tech Is Human livestreams featuring various speakers
accessible readings and channels
404 media - digital media investigative journalism about the mutual impact of technology and society
Speculative F(r)iction in AI Use and Governance by Bogdana Rakova