Transfeminist AI Governance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15682v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:25:59 GMT
• Title: Transfeminist AI Governance
• Authors: Blair Attard-Frost,
• Abstract summary: Article re-imagines the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through a transfeminist lens.<n>Building upon trans and feminist theories of ethics, I introduce an approach to transfeminist AI governance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This article re-imagines the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through a transfeminist lens, focusing on challenges of power, participation, and injustice, and on opportunities for advancing equity, community-based resistance, and transformative change. AI governance is a field of research and practice seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms caused by AI systems. Unfortunately, AI governance practices are frequently ineffective at preventing AI systems from harming people and the environment, with historically marginalized groups such as trans people being particularly vulnerable to harm. Building upon trans and feminist theories of ethics, I introduce an approach to transfeminist AI governance. Applying a transfeminist lens in combination with a critical self-reflexivity methodology, I retroactively reinterpret findings from three empirical studies of AI governance practices in Canada and globally. In three reflections on my findings, I show that large-scale AI governance systems structurally prioritize the needs of industry over marginalized communities. As a result, AI governance is limited by power imbalances and exclusionary norms. This research shows that re-grounding AI governance in transfeminist ethical principles can support AI governance researchers, practitioners, and organizers in addressing those limitations.

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