July 13, 2026
AI for a Just World: Power, Liberation, and the People Left Behind (forthcoming)
Edited by Christo El Morr, Rachel Gorman, Elham Dolatabadi, and Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis
What does it mean to build Artificial Intelligence for a just world—and for whom is justice imagined?
As AI systems deepen their reach into health care, education, borders, social media, and intimate life, AI for a Just World: Power, Liberation, and the People Left Behind gathers a bold interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to ask hard questions about equity, oppression, and technological futures.
Spanning four wide-ranging sections--Artificial Intelligence and the Pursuit of Equity; Disability Justice and the Limits of Technoableism; Gender, Violence, and Social Reproduction; and Coloniality, Liberation, and Other Ways of Knowing—this volume travels from the clinic to the cloud, from the classroom to the border, to expose how power and discrimination are reproduced in algorithmic design and deployment. Chapters rethink fairness in medical AI, challenge ableist frameworks in STEM and higher education, interrogate misogyny and violence encoded into digital platforms, and confront the colonial logics structuring migration control and geopolitical analysis.
Contributors also chart pathways forward: equity-by-design in health systems, disability-centered approaches to AI development, Indigenous relational ethics, and posthumanist possibilities for reimagining our relationship with intelligent technologies.
Provocative and visionary, AI for a Just World provides critical tools for scholars, technologists, policymakers, and activists determined to ensure that AI does not merely innovate—but liberates.
Edited by Christo El Morr, Rachel Gorman, Elham Dolatabadi, and Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis
What does it mean to build Artificial Intelligence for a just world—and for whom is justice imagined?
As AI systems deepen their reach into health care, education, borders, social media, and intimate life, AI for a Just World: Power, Liberation, and the People Left Behind gathers a bold interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners to ask hard questions about equity, oppression, and technological futures.
Spanning four wide-ranging sections--Artificial Intelligence and the Pursuit of Equity; Disability Justice and the Limits of Technoableism; Gender, Violence, and Social Reproduction; and Coloniality, Liberation, and Other Ways of Knowing—this volume travels from the clinic to the cloud, from the classroom to the border, to expose how power and discrimination are reproduced in algorithmic design and deployment. Chapters rethink fairness in medical AI, challenge ableist frameworks in STEM and higher education, interrogate misogyny and violence encoded into digital platforms, and confront the colonial logics structuring migration control and geopolitical analysis.
Contributors also chart pathways forward: equity-by-design in health systems, disability-centered approaches to AI development, Indigenous relational ethics, and posthumanist possibilities for reimagining our relationship with intelligent technologies.
Provocative and visionary, AI for a Just World provides critical tools for scholars, technologists, policymakers, and activists determined to ensure that AI does not merely innovate—but liberates.