The Joy beeing an Error | bpb.de

Especially for the efforts to use AI in healthcare, an intersectional view of disability and these technologies is politically significant. According to the thesis, disability is always the limit of AI, something that symbolizes both the failure of this technology and its supposed successes as a transhuman artifact.

On the one hand, disability is the moment that AI tries to overcome—the apparent human weakness, the imperfect. On the other hand, within the field of AI production, disability is one of the most lucrative interfaces between humans and technology, as shown by smart prosthetics or behavior-regulating apps for neurodiverse people.

This ambivalence results in both moments of oppression and subversive potential. Interfaces always enable the hacking of these moments. The possibility of another world forms the critical focal point for considerations regarding alternative designs and policies of digital infrastructures.

This lecture is part of the series "Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial."

The series "Digitalization: Feminist & Decolonial" opens critical perspectives on digital transformation processes, questioning, among other things, their effects on marginalized communities.

Events from 2023 can be viewed here: Externer Link: https://youtu.be/uEhhZwumoEE?si=3aFFT0xgEf_6ZfxM

Katharina Klappheck is Head of Feminist Internet Policy at the Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Katharina focuses on issues of digital violence, automated discrimination, and digitalization in healthcare, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence in medicine. Katharina is interested in whether care robots dream and whether the internet can accommodate feminist utopias.

Katharina Klappheck is a political scientist who pursued a master's degree at the University of Vienna, focusing on "Trans and Non-Binarity within Artificial Intelligence." Katharina completed a bachelor's degree at the Technical University of Dresden, with a thesis on "Design as a Feminist Practice."

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