ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen / Institute for International Cultural Relations) invites proposals for the following research project: Gender Perspectives on AI: A Strategic Scope for Action for Inclusive International Cultural Policy.
How could AI help to counter hate speech and (gender) violence in digital space? What impact does AI have on inequalities and power relations in international cultural relations? What opportunities does AI offer to counter colonial legacies in cyber politics and to question power structures in international relations? How could the Federal Foreign Office with its external cultural policy support inclusive approaches to AI? Is there a correlation between patriarchal power structures being reproduced in and with the cyberspace and societies becoming more and more oppressive? To what extent does AI-based disinformation play a role in that regard? Which structures need to be changed and how, so that the new authoritarian developments of governance which rely on technologies of surveillance, security and accumulation of data can be vehemently countered?
The research shall identify policy recommendations, specifically what needs to be changed for a more inclusive international cultural policy and ideas for projects and programmes in the field of international cultural relations.
The publication can be written in English or German.
Location of work is flexible, with a gross fee of 9,000 EUR.
