Can We Create an Intersectional AI?

The article argues that the harms of AI are tied to racial capitalism, labor exploitation, the automation debate, and data theft, and asks whether AI can be designed to be intersectional and feminist. It points to Nadja Verena Marcin's #SOPHYGRAY, a feminist audio bot app that questions the submissive, gendered voices of assistants like Alexa and Siri, and whose dataset archives quotations from women authors. It also describes Sarah Ciston's Intersectional AI Toolkit, which invites contributions from queer, antiracist, antiableist, and feminist communities, and their "No Knots, Only Loops" project, which connects knitting to the hidden labor behind ChatGPT.