Critical Lens on AI in/from Majority World(s)

An community-oriented advocacy collective that furthers humanistic and social scientific inquiry on artificial intelligence.

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Critical Lens on AI in/from Majority World(s)

An community-oriented advocacy collective that furthers humanistic and social scientific inquiry on artificial intelligence.

Join the community

What is CLAIM?

A community-oriented collective and co-learning community for scholars, practitioners, and thinkers invested in critical engagement with Artificial Intelligence in/from Majority World contexts.

Critical Inquiry

We examine modern AI beyond its dominant narratives of progress and harm, and instead focus on infrastructures, histories, and power structures. We foster literacies about data, algorithms, and AI transcending disciplinary and social boundaries.

Majority World(s)

We centre voices, experiences, and knowledge systems in/from the Majority World to look at algorithmic lives within its lived and situated contexts. We use ‘world(s)’ to draw attention to the multiple lives inherently implicated in/around AI systems.

Collective Interpretation

Learning together in an act of collective interpretation. CLAIM holds space for an open, empathetic, and respectful dialogue including reading groups about AI interventions across disciplines and geographies. We focus on a low-entry barrier conversation for everyone.

Language & Representation

Data Colonialism

Care, Ethics & Resistance

Situated Knowledge

Infrastructure & Inequality

Community Knowledge

AI & Power

Governance & Policy

Decolonial AI

Epistemic Justice

Situated Knowledge

What We Look at?

Our practice

How CLAIM structures collective thinking and dialogue?

Our work unfolds through shared intellectual labour, careful listening, and sustained engagement with algorithmically-shaped realities, as lived and contested by the Majority World.

Curated focus

Conversations and texts are invited from the community and curated with care to foreground overlooked questions and unsettle dominant assumptions about AI’s complexities.

Situated thinking

CLAIM focuses on the social, cultural, and political conditions shaping AI as an infrastructure and knowledge formation.

Dialogic format

CLAIM Events and reading group sessions are built on open exchange and active participation, with a low barrier entry to keep engagement accessible to all.

Curated focus

Conversations and texts are invited from the community and curated with care to foreground overlooked questions and unsettle dominant assumptions about AI’s complexities.

Situated thinking

CLAIM focuses on the social, cultural, and political conditions shaping AI as an infrastructure and knowledge formation.

Dialogic format

CLAIM Events and reading group sessions are built on open exchange and active participation, with a low barrier entry to keep engagement accessible to all.

Shared responsibility

CLAIM is sustained through mutual care, accountability, and community engagement that remains attentive to experience, power, and difference.

Shared responsibility

CLAIM is sustained through mutual care, accountability, and community engagement that remains attentive to experience, power, and difference.

Open-ended inquiry

CLAIM values questions over conclusions as participants listen, respond, and reflect together, allowing ideas to develop through collective conversation.

Our practice

How CLAIM structures collective thinking and dialogue?

Our work unfolds through shared intellectual labour, careful listening, and sustained engagement with algorithmically-shaped realities, as lived and contested by the Majority World.

CLAIM welcomes scholars, artists, and thinkers committed to engaging critically with AI infrastructure and perspectives rooted in Majority World contexts.

Who we are?