Gender and AI
Symposium

Hosted by Dr Moran as part of her postdoctoral research fellowship in the Centre for Digital Humanities, the Gender and AI Symposium took place in Trinity College Dublin on June 3rd 2026. We saw researchers gather across many fields, including Sociology, Engineering, Tech Ethics, Digital Humanities, History, Education, Gender Studies, Politics, Psychology, Mathematics and Human Geography. Knowledge was shared concerning intersectional design practice, normativising uses of LLMs, the patriarchal symbolic power of Generative AI, gendered human rights abuses in production chains, the gendered anthropomorphisation of AI, algorithmic practices of classifying gendered bodies, diagnoses of gendered conditions, the uses of AI in peace processes, teaching and learning with AI, the global impacts of the digital divide on women, and the non-relationship of fantasy projection between humans and companion AI. Throughout the day, perspectives which focused on harm reduction were platformed alongside more abolitionist structural critiques, which challenged us to think together about the kinds of reforms we want when it comes to gender equity for AI and ICT industries. The Symposium proved to be a highly successful collaboration between not just researchers but the Centre for Digital Humanities (TCD) and partner host organisers, the Counter-Data Lab (TCD) and the Joint TCD-TU Dublin Centre for the Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM). Many presenters and attendees requested a repeat event and, while we have no immediate plans for this just yet, we will certainly send all of our guests further details via email if another event of this nature materialises.