A Critique of Human-Centred AI: A Plea for a Feminist AI Framework (FAIF)

Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes science, industries, public discourse and our personal lives, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is a downside to unregulated advancements in the field. Human-centred AI (HCAI) has been hailed as an important step towards fairness, equity, and inclusion. However, a critical feminist analysis shows that HCAI falls short of achieving these goals. HCAI, as it is currently practised, remains to a large extend Eurocentric, androcentric, and anthropocentric, and is driven by a capitalist market logic without commitment to sustainability. It disregards and exacerbates global injustices and ecological impacts. The article criticizes HCAI from a feminist, post humanist, and neo-materialist perspective and proposes a Feminist AI Framework (FAIF) that also incorporates findings from more-than-human anthropology and body-phenomenology. FAIF aims to reassess the relationship between humans, other life-forms, and technology and explores the potential of collaborative, non-hierarchical design, usage, and controlling of AI. Rather than being primarily about damage control, FAIF serves as a proactive attempt to ensure the co-constitutive wellbeing of humans and non-humans by breaking with traditional narratives about AI and progress.