Critical AI and Design Justice: An Interview with Sasha Costanza-Chock

Kristin Rose is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her research extends across Victorian literature, landscape studies, and the environmental humanities, as well as gender and sexuality studies. She received her PhD in English literature from Rutgers University in spring 2023, where she held the positions of project manager for Critical AI @ Rutgers and senior editorial assistant for Critical AI.

Kate Henne is the director of RegNet, the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance, and leads the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech). She is also a chief investigator on the ANU Humanising Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge project and a member of the ANU Gender Institute. Her research is concerned with how science and technology influence regulation and governance, focusing on the implications for health, public safety, and well-being.

Sabelo Mhlambi is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is the founder of Bhala, an AI startup that democratizes the advances of AI to millions of Africans through natural language processing of African languages and African visual languages, and Bantucracy, a public interest organization that focuses on ubuntu ethics and technology. He researches the human rights impacts of algorithmic technology on marginalized communities with an emphasis on global South perspectives in AI policy.

Anand Sarwate is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University as well as a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics. His research interests include distributed optimization and signal processing, machine learning and statistics, information theory, and privacy-preserving data analysis.

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a renowned researcher and designer known for her work on social movement networks, transformative media organizing, and design justice. She is the head of research and sensemaking at OneProject.org and associate professor at Northeastern University's College of Arts, Media, and Design. Sasha is also a faculty associate with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a member of the steering committee of the Design Justice Network (designjustice.org). She is the author of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the World We Need (2020).