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Women in AI: Urvashi Aneja is researching the social impact of AI in India
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved -- and overdue -- time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of
But this misses the forest for the trees — a product-oriented lens obscures the broader structural impacts such as the contribution of AI to epistemic injustice, deskilling of labor and the perpetuation of unaccountable power in the majority world. I’m also proud that we’ve been able to translate these concerns into concrete policy and regulation — whether designing procurement guidelines for AI use in the public sector or delivering evidence in legal proceedings against Big Tech companies in the Global South. I see this most recently with the use of generative AI tools in low-resource contexts in the majority world — rather than be cautious about these experimental and unreliable technologies, the focus often shifts to how end-users, such as farmers or front-line health workers, need to up-skill.
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