<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; "><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Hello SIGCIS,<br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;">I'm excited to share that my colleagues at AI Now, Noopur Raval and Amba Kak, have launched the project: <a href="https://medium.com/a-new-ai-lexicon/a-new-ai-lexicon-responses-and-challenges-to-the-critical-ai-discourse-f2275989fa62" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">A New AI Lexicon: Responses and Challenges to the Critical AI Discourse</a>. The projects aims to expand and revise critical AI thinking by attending to global racial histories, diverse queer movements, struggles of caste and tribe communities, and their specific place-based demands especially outside of the West. We need a more expansive stocktaking of race and gender relations as well as the variegated forms of marginalization globally.<b><br></b></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>As part of this project, we are inviting short essays that address or challenge a dominant concept, metaphor, or keyword along which critical AI thinking is currently undertaken </b>(like Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, Bias, Auditing, Ghost Labor, Explainability, Social Good etc.). <b>Or identify new terms or formulations currently missing from the discourse.</b><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;">We encourage academics, activists, journalists and others, <i>especially early career or junior colleagues</i> researching global AI histories, materialities and futures to apply. We are able to offer financial support to a limited number of contributors, and the submission guidelines are available here: <a href="https://medium.com/a-new-ai-lexicon/a-new-ai-lexicon-responses-and-challenges-to-the-critical-ai-discourse-f2275989fa62" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">https://medium.com/a-new-ai-lexicon/a-new-ai-lexicon-responses-and-challenges-to-the-critical-ai-discourse-f2275989fa62</a><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;">If you have any questions, or know someone who would be a good fit for this project, please feel free to reach out to me, Noopur (<a href="mailto:noopur@ainowinstitute.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">noopur@ainowinstitute.org</a>) or Amba (<a href="mailto:amba@ainowinstitute.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">amba@ainowinstitute.org</a>).<br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Thanks very much,<span dir="ltr"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Joy</div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: "helvetica Neue", helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br>Joy Lisi Rankin | she/her/hers<div>Research Lead for the Gender, Race, and Power in AI Program</div><div><a href="http://www.ainowinstitute.org/" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">AI Now Institute</a> @ <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">NYU</a></div><div>Author: <i><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970977" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">A People's History of Computing in the US</a></i></div><div>Recently: "<a href="https://logicmag.io/care/bodies-into-bits/" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">Bodies into Bits</a>" and "<a href="https://medium.com/@AINowInstitute/whitewashing-tech-why-the-erasures-of-the-past-matter-today-166d0d5e2789" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto;">Whitewashing Tech</a>"</div></div></div></body></html>