The lecture will be part of Dr Răzvan Ion's future book "Queerverse/Exploring Diversified AI: Towards a Postresearch Condition.” It offers a socio-technical exploration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it reflects and reproduces certain normative representations of gender and sexuality to ultimately guide more diverse and radical discussions of life with digital technologies. It poses questions about the politics and ethics of machine embodiments and data imaginaries on the one hand and about technical possibilities for the production of social identities characterised by shifting diversity and multiplicity on the other, as they are mediated by and through digital technologies. AI could pull marginalised people into the mainstream economy in future years and thus be a tool for social levelling. AI can “break down barriers” for people “who have nothing" in a near-unprecedented way.
