C.L.AI.M, an acronym for Critical Lens on AI in/from Majority World(s), is an advocacy collective that brings forward humanistic and social scientific inquiry on AI or Artificial Intelligence. Our work unfolds through shared intellectual labour, careful listening, and sustained engagement with debates, discussions, and diversities of AI, as lived and contested in Majority World contexts.
Reading is an act of collective interpretation, and what better way is there to learn! Through reading together, we foster literacies about data, algorithms, automations, and artificial intelligence that transcends disciplinary and social boundaries. We centre voices, experiences, and knowledge systems in/from the Majority World that are often unheard, unseen, and unappreciated.
Artificial intelligence, but critically:
By focusing deeply on epistemic histories, knowledge infrastructures, and power structures that shape algorithmic realities, we encourage technical and socially informed lenses to AI.
Majority World(S):
Majority World, as coined by Shahidul Alam challenges the rhetoric of the ‘third world’, encouraging to “define the community in terms of what it has, rather than what it lacks.” We use ‘world(s)’ in our name to draw focus on the social lives that are inherently embedded in/around AI systems.