AI ETHICIST
I am a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, where I researches anti-Asian racism and AI and Asian diasporic approaches to AI ethics. I am a AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, where I brings complex conversations about gender, race and artificial intelligence to wide audiences. I am a Research Fellow at AI Now and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL. I am also an affiliate of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, Cambridge Digital Humanities, the Gender and Feminism Research Network at UCL, the Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL, and is a Research Associate at St John’s College, Cambridge. Previously, I was a Christina Gaw postdoctoral researcher in Gender and Technology at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.
I can be contacted at kam83@cam.ac.uk
RESEARCHER
My work uses feminist and critical race theory to examine how histories of race and gender shape contemporary technologies, with a specific focus on artificial intelligence. My scholarship on this topic has appeared in journals such as Feminist Review, Public Understanding of Science and Philosophy and Technology. My work on AI-powered hiring tools has also been covered by media outlets like the BBC, BBC Today, Forbes, the Register, and the Daily Mail, among other international outlets. Meanwhile, my work on representations of AI scientists in film was covered by The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC Tech Tent, and other national and international outlets.
RADIO AND PODCAST HOST
As an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, I regularly appear on radio to discuss AI ethics. I am also the co-host of The Good Robot podcast, which is one of the leading podcasts worldwide on feminism, gender and technology. I have appeared on popular shows such as AHRC BBC’s New Thinking, The Guilty Feminist, the Colin McEnroe Show, BBC Cambridgeshire, Mindshop and the Radical AI Podcast; have been recognised as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022; and have been shortlisted for the Champion of Women - Champion of Innovation (2022), Women of the Future - Technology and Digital (2022), and Women in Tech Excellence - Rising Star (2022) awards. I have presented her research at a range of conferences, companies and organisations including DeepMind, the Tony Blair Institute, RightsCon, and a number of other national and international conferences.
AUTHOR
I am the co-editor of the forthcoming collection Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Data, Algorithms and Intelligent Machines (September 2023) with Oxford University Press and the forthcoming collection The Good Robot: Feminist Voices on the Future of Technology (February 2024) with Bloomsbury Academic. I have been offered a contract by Princeton University Press for a monograph called Reprogram: Why Big Tech is Broken and How Feminism Can Transform It, co-authored with Dr Eleanor Drage. The full manuscript of my monograph, Bodies at Their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence Through Women’s Hunger Strikes, is currently under review at Oxford University Press as part of their Gender and International Relations series. I am currently working on a third monograph, entitled Yellow Techno-Peril: Anti-Asian Racism and Artificial Intelligence.