Gender in a stereo-(gender)typical EU AI law: A feminist reading of the AI act – Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance

‘This paper examines the European Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI), commonly known as AI Act, through a feminist lens, analysing how the proposed regulatory framework addresses gender, non-discrimination and systemic power imbalances. Drawing on Miranda Fricker’s theory of hermeneutical injustice, Catharine MacKinnon’s feminist legal theory on male dominance, Aníbal Quijano’s concept of “coloniality of power” and Walter Mignolo’s theory of epistemology and the decoloniality of law, the paper critiques the AI Act’s approach to gender bias and discrimination. The findings argue that while the AI Act seeks to mitigate gendered risks, it falls short of addressing the structural biases embedded in AI technologies, which disproportionately harm marginalised groups.’

Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-law-and-governance/article/gender-in-a-stereogendertypical-eu-ai-law-a-feminist-reading-of-the-ai-act/E9DEFC1E114CBE577D737EC616610921