El derecho humano a la ciencia y la tecnología para las mujeres: una crítica desde la filosofía feminista de la computación

Abstract

The objective of this text is to argue the crucial intersection between feminism, human rights, and Science and Technology (S&T), with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI), as a fundamental field of analysis in the 21st century. The historical underrepresentation of women in technological fields, especially in computer science, is addressed as a manifestation of structural inequality that influences the development and application of digital technologies. Technology, far from being neutral, incorporates traditional masculine biases and values, perpetuating and reproducing gender inequalities through its design and use. Although the human right to S&T includes both access to benefits and active participation in its creation and development, its full realization for women is limited. The limited participation of women in technological design results in systems and algorithms that exhibit biases that are harmful to women, often due to the absence of diverse perspectives in their development. Feminist philosophers analyze these biases from the philosophy of computation through three critical dimensions: the epistemic, which reveals how computational knowledge is shaped by masculine biases; the ontological, which examines how digital materiality reconfigures notions of corporeality and gender; and the ethical-political, which analyzes the reproduction of power inequalities and the lack of digital security sensitive to the vulnerabilities of women and girls. The urgent need to diversify teams, assess and correct biases, and incorporate feminist methodologies into technological design is emphasized to ensure that emerging technologies respond to the needs of the entire population and to reconceptualize digital security from a gender and intersectional perspective.