Khan is a writer of criticism on digital visual culture and philosophy of emerging technology.

She has worked at the intersection of gender justice, technology, and digital (un)freedom of expression with NGOs in India and Europe. She is completing a PhD about the material-discursive shaping of “AI” and autonomous systems in terms of “ethics” and “intelligence”. Maya Indira Ganesh is a technology researcher whose work investigates the social, cultural, metaphoric, and political implications of the 'becoming-human' of machines, and vice versa.Beauty blooms even as the world is trying to break our spirit. Let us set and own the terms through which we interrogate new/old technologies, and re-fashion them in our work. What kinds of futures do we imagine through new technologies, and how have we understood the legacies of our pasts as shaped by the information technologies? In this talk, I think for myself and with you about the modes and approaches that make connections rather than separations, between knowledge systems, time frames, and political movements. I want to look at the temporalities folded into and taking shape through ‘AI’, digital, and ‘autonomous’ technologies through struggles of Indian farmers, the attacks on the digital and fleshy bodies of women, Black people, Dalits, and Indigenous people. The imagination of a more humane digital earth to come requires abundance and generosity an excessive spilling-out of known categories of the human a transformative break with exclusionary and violent systems of knowing and knowledge-making. Beauty Blooms: Abundant and Generous Digital Futures STATEMENT FROM THE SPEAKER, MAYA INDIRA GANESHīreak with modes of knowledge-production that do not serve you and set the terms of engaging with new technologies

We hosted a live discussion with the Digital Earth Fellows in conversation with Maya Indira Ganesh, moderated by Nora N. Through a patchwork of references, she suggests that before we imagine humane digital earths, we should begin imagining humane perceptions of humans. Then, if AI is generated by conceptions of the human, what kinds of humans are they serving, and how might AI in turn shape our own idea of what constitutes a person? Drilling through knowledge systems and human rights movements, Ganesh looks for the disparities between the implementation of AI and the processes of dehumanisation these implementations entail. In this proposition, Maya Indira Ganesh examines AI as shaped by the shifting definition of the human originating in various epistemologies of inclusion and exclusion.

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