Women Reclaiming AI (WRAI) is an expanding activist art-work, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, (chat to it here by clicking the chat icon), programmed through participatory workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people. Through creating a platform for collective writing and editing the project co-creates an AI that challenges gender roles.

It is a response to the pervasive depiction of AI voice assistants gendered as women, subordinate and serving. Designed by development teams which lack diversity these systems are embedded with unrepresentative worldviews and stereotyping which reinforce traditional gender roles.

WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest.

The WRAI art-work consists of the collectively designed voice assistant and an evolving alternative visual representation of women through the use of a GAN (generative adversarial network) (as displayed at the top of this page). The GAN is trained on an ongoing data-set of images of the women participating and other women the collective find inspirational (scraped from Wikipedia and other public repositories). The intention is to create an alternative data-set of women, which we collectively feel is more representative. This project is created by artists – technologists Coral Manton and Birgitta Age in collaboration with an ever evolving community of self-identifying women.