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Women in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Increased Targeting and Growing Challenges

Jul 28, 2023 | genderit.org | Nour Naim |Rawand Issa

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and tools are being adopted at an unprecedented pace throughout all sectors. But in the absence of ethical codes and regulatory frameworks that can guide the development and use of these technologies, this development comes with ethical, legal, and human rights concerns for users, especially vulnerable groups of society who face different types of biases based on gender, age, ethnic origin, religion, and political and sexual orientation.
Is Civil Society In MENA Ready To Tackle AI’s Human Rights Challenges?

Jul 28, 2023 | genderit.org | Afef Abrougui |Rawand Issa

The development and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the MENA region may not be accelerating as much as other parts of the world. However, given the dire human rights situation, rising oppression, and lack of independent, democratic, and robust institutions (data protection authorities, parliaments, judiciary) that protect people from the harms of these technologies, a wider scale adoption of AI would only further erode human rights.
Who’s afraid of the Centaur: Musings on Blockchain and Feminism

Jul 28, 2023 | genderit.org | Rawand Issa

[Written by Habash, co-edited by Che-GPT]Half of my waking hours are spent by me talking to myself, with internal voices that sometimes mimic my father's tone and sometimes my mother's. At other times, a collage of various tones resonates within me. With help from my psychiatrist, I succeeded in silencing my father's voice. I have softened its firmness and have subverted its philosophy that celebrates masculinity and attributes self-proclaimed "values" to it.
kotobli: a homegrown experiment in resisting dominant algorithms

Jul 28, 2023 | genderit.org | Yara El Murr |Rawand Issa

If you search for books about Lebanon on the internet —not even the Lebanese civil war—, you are most likely to find war books by two white men, Robert Fisk and Thomas Friedman, on top of many lists. Why not Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan? These two women who were born and raised in the region, two great authors who have skillfully and beautifully written about their lives and their communities, rarely show up in general searches.