<p>This paper involves a comprehensive exploration of AI narratives and will assess how central themes in science fiction (SF) media can reflect antiquated or exploratory gender politics. By investigating the representation of AI figures, this work will critique the conservative constructs embedded in futuristic imaginaries of reproductive labour and gender. Through the exploration of how anxieties surrounding the development of reproductive technologies translate into SF narratives, these philosophies will be extended to discussions of AI and the technology industry. This article contributes to feminist AI scholarship by tracing how reproductive and domestic imaginaries from twentieth-century feminist SF continue to influence gendered assumptions in contemporary technological development and labour politics. The discussed works of fiction are critically acclaimed and selected for their exemplification of broader trends prevalent within discussions of technology. This work is structured through distinct sections, focussing on the intersection of mid-century cyberfeminism, domestic labour dynamics, queer theory and the treatment of gender within twentieth-century SF following the development of reproductive technology. Drawing from feminists such as Donna Haraway and Shulamith Firestone, these trends in SF will be tied to anxieties prevalent in the technology industry to reveal how fictional and real narratives blur together to challenge or maintain hegemonic power.</p>

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Mothers of invention: decoding future imaginaries in AI narratives

  • Amaia Robertson Nogues

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This paper involves a comprehensive exploration of AI narratives and will assess how central themes in science fiction (SF) media can reflect antiquated or exploratory gender politics. By investigating the representation of AI figures, this work will critique the conservative constructs embedded in futuristic imaginaries of reproductive labour and gender. Through the exploration of how anxieties surrounding the development of reproductive technologies translate into SF narratives, these philosophies will be extended to discussions of AI and the technology industry. This article contributes to feminist AI scholarship by tracing how reproductive and domestic imaginaries from twentieth-century feminist SF continue to influence gendered assumptions in contemporary technological development and labour politics. The discussed works of fiction are critically acclaimed and selected for their exemplification of broader trends prevalent within discussions of technology. This work is structured through distinct sections, focussing on the intersection of mid-century cyberfeminism, domestic labour dynamics, queer theory and the treatment of gender within twentieth-century SF following the development of reproductive technology. Drawing from feminists such as Donna Haraway and Shulamith Firestone, these trends in SF will be tied to anxieties prevalent in the technology industry to reveal how fictional and real narratives blur together to challenge or maintain hegemonic power.