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My Name is Gihan Soliman, from the International-Curricula Educators Association with the WMG.
1- In discussing new technologies, it’s important to research their impact on people with multiple intersecting vulnerabilities, yet a heightened co-benefits to people and the environment, such as indigenous women in developing countries (I can give an example of this if time permits). Technology is mediated by the socio-economics of Neoliberalism and therefore has the effect of intensifying inequality among people and nations.
2- We discuss AI in an instrumental sense; as a tool, but we’ve been warned by great scientists, such as Steven Hawking, against AI dominating our socioeconomics and gaining independence from the human purpose. I suggest that this research element be advanced in any study of the impact of new technologies on response measures.
A strong example of this is the indigenous women of the Salar Uyuni in Bolivia whose, livelihood, low-profile (but nature-preserving) technology, and ecosystems are threatened by lithium mining critically linked to some response measures such as increasing the efficiency of electric vehicles, for instance.
Recommendation: Make sure the language reflects the need to focus on people with multiple vulnerabilities and heightened environmental co-benefits. Taxation of automation is one way to support those communities as the world continues to reap benefits from their unpaid environmental roles/services in protecting soils and the atmosphere. Additionally, more funding for research on knowledge-transfer pros and cons, balances and checks, and the role of women in community development is very much welcome.
