Routledge London publishes "Queer Reflections on AI Uncertain Intelligences"

This volume - edited by our fellows Michael Klipphahn-Karge and Ann-Kathrin Koster (now Weizenbaum Institut), together with Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss - offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality, to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies.

Moving beyond the examination of empirical examples and technical solutions, the book approaches the relationship between queerness and AI from a theoretical perspective that posits queer theory as central to understanding AI differently. The chapters pose questions about the politics and ethics of machine embodiments and data imaginaries on the one hand, and about technical possibilities for a production of social identities characterised by shifting diversity and multiplicity on the other, as they are mediated by and through digital technologies.

Transgressing disciplinary boundaries to engage a diversity of conceptual tools, critical approaches, and theoretical traditions, this book will be an important resource for students and researchers of gender and sexuality, new media and digital cultures, cultural theory, art and visual culture, and AI.

The volume summarizes the results of the highly considered symposium "Queer AI" (2021) of Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden and GenderConceptGroup of the TU Dresden. It combines contributions of Blair Attard-Frost, Johannes Bruder, Valérie Félix, Kris Vera Hartmann, Carsten Junker, Ute Kalender, Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Katrin Köppert, Ann-Kathrin Koster, Ann-Kristin Kühnen, Malin Kuht, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Emilia Sladek and Natalie Sontopski.