Automation on the Move - Fabio Chiusi
Digital technologies and AI systems often amplify structural discrimination and perpetuate colonial logics through biased design, unequal power dynamics, and exploitative practices. These dynamics reinforce global inequities and limit communities' agency in shaping their technological futures. The Towards a Decolonized Artificial Intelligence seminar series, organized by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, critically examines these issues and explores strategies to rethink technologies through alternative design and use paradigms.
The fourth seminar of the series will host Fabio Chiusi, Project Lead at Algorithm Watch.
Systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) are increasingly being experimented with and used on migrants, refugees, and travelers. Too often, this is done without adequate democratic discussion or oversight. In addition, their use lacks transparency and justification to those who are subjected to these systems, as a growing body of literature and evidence shows. Adopting a mixture of investigative journalism, desk research, in-depth analysis of the available literature and use cases, and network building, this project aimed to challenge the structural opacity that guides technologies in this context, with a specific focus on understanding the actual outputs and vision behinds EU-funded research and innovation projects involving automated technologies in migration.
The event will consist of a 40' keynote followed by 20' for Q&A.