Feminist AI
Critical Perspectives on Data, Algorithms and
Intelligent Machines
Edited by
PROFESSOR JUDE BROWNE
Head of Department, Department of Politics and International Studies,
University of Cambridge
Frankopan Director at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
DR STEPHEN C AV E
Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity, University of
Cambridge.
DR ELE ANOR DR AGE
Christina Gaw Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology,
University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, Senior Research Fellow at
the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
DR K ERR Y MC INERNE Y
Christina Gaw Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Gender and Technology,
University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, Research Fellow at the
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
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