A Reply on Responsibility and Repair in AI

Lessons From Outer Space, Agriculture and Gay Hookup Apps

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ID8962344
AutoresN Stevens (0000-0003-3811-9245, Smith College, autor correspondente), Jack Jen Gieseking (0000-0001-9472-9676, CUNY Graduate Center, Public Science Project New York New York USA)
Ano2025
Data de publicação2025-12-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.70046
OpenAlexW7117119390
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas30

This afterword examines artificial intelligence (AI) as the latest iteration of digital capitalism's utopian promises and resultant violences, while situating AI within broader conversations on responsibility and repair in digital geographies. Building from what Lucy Suchman describes as its ‘strategic vagueness’, and much like ‘big data’ in the 2010s, AI is promoted through power and manipulation: supposedly able to solve social, political and environmental crises, while obscuring its colonial and racist infrastructures. Responding to interventions by Katarzyna Cieslik, Yung Au and Margath Walker with Jamie Winders, we trace the ways AI's supply chains span from agricultural megafarms to outer space, and we bring in another intimate geography of AI: the work of Trust & Safety professionals, particularly those working in dating and hookup apps. We argue that AI itself cannot serve as an agent of repair in the harms it causes. Instead, repair emerges through human networks of accountability and care, informed by feminist, Black, queer, trans and decolonial frameworks

Accountability · Agriculture · Colonialism · Politics · Power (physics · Psychological intervention · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure