The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism
The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism
What is good technology? Is it even possible? And how can feminism help us work toward it?
Join Dr Kerry McInerney, Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, as she discusses these crucial questions and her new book, The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism (with Dr Eleanor Drage). McInerney is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker and the co-host of The Good Robot Podcast on gender, feminism and technology. She is the co-editor of Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines.
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Dr Kerry McInerney (Corpus Christi 2013)
Dr Kerry McInerney (née Mackereth) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where she co-leads the Global Politics of AI project on how AI is impacting international relations. She is also a Research Fellow at the AI Now Institute (a leading AI policy thinktank in New York) and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL for 2023-2024. Kerry is an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker (2023), one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2022), one of Computing’s Rising Stars 30 (2023), and she has been shortlisted for the Champion of Women - Champion of Innovation (2022), Women of the Future - Technology and Digital (2022), and Women in Tech Excellence - Rising Star (2022) awards.
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