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A collaboration between scholars and practitioners, this essay introduces the Theory of Interrogative Reasoning, a community-centered framework that reconceptualizes ethical AI as a function of power, belief, and timing rather than solely technical design. Here, Jameila “Meme” Styles, Zameshia Williams, Jose Teran, and Sylvester Johnson draw on real-world application of this approach to demonstrate how community-led interrogation can transform lived experience into actionable evidence that informs AI governance, system design, and public accountability.
As AI technology proliferates, many have called for greater protections for those on the other end of the software’s results. Among these advocates is Meme Styles. n this interview, Program Associate Carmina Rangel-Pacheco talks with Meme Styles, 2022 Just Tech Fellow and the founder of Measure, about the limits of human-in-the-loop approaches and Styles’s own proposition for creating stronger and more comprehensive AI and digital safeguards: the theory of interrogated reasoning. Here, she explains this approach and how it came to be.
Jose Adalberto Teran is a senior technology executive and AI transformation leader based in Austin, Texas, with over 25 years of experience building and scaling technology-driven platforms across industries, including […]
Paola Mosso, a cyber-feminist Latina activist and creative thinker, is currently executive director of the Engine Room. She leads on organizational strategy, development and fundraising, and oversees team-wide programmatic implementation. […]
Lesedi Bewlay serves as deputy director at the Engine Room, where he leads efforts to strengthen partnerships and advise project leads across sub-Saharan Africa. Bewlay has a background in computer […]
The DISCO Network (Digital Inquiry Speculation Collaboration Optimism Network) is an intergenerational collective of researchers, artists, technologists, policymakers, and practitioners working together to challenge digital social and racial inequalities. Participants include:
Chelsea Barabas is a scholar and cultural organizer whose work emerges through collaboration with communities confronting the harms of surveillance and punitive technologies. Rooted in both research and the arts, […]
Anna Beers studies the activities of political online communities and particularly the social media influencers that act within them. While she focuses on quantitative methods and particularly network science, her […]
Emma Vossen is a writer and researcher with a PhD from the University of Waterloo. She is the coauthor and coeditor of the book Feminism in Play (Palgrave, 2018) and […]
Sarah Stang is an assistant professor of game studies in Brock University’s Game Design program, housed in the Department of Digital Humanities. She is a feminist media scholar who specializes […]
Lilian Olivia Orero is a lawyer and advocate of the High Court of Kenya, specializing in gender, technology, and law, with a particular focus on cybersecurity, women’s online safety, and […]