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Algorithms, Authorship, and Empire: Critical Race Perspectives on Technology and Control
This panel interrogates how emerging technologies and intellectual property law reproduce racial hierarchies. Presenters analyze how structural bias in generative AI perpetuates racial inequality, how settler colonialism and global “chip wars” shape the cultural and geopolitical stakes of AI in Oceania, and how copyright law’s fixation on authorship has historically denied marginalized communities recognition for their creative labor. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, decolonial scholarship, and feminist critiques, the panel reveals how technological and legal regimes—often framed as neutral or progressive—can reinforce subjugating systems. Collectively, these papers offer accountable and justice-oriented alternatives to the ways knowledge, creativity, and data are owned and controlled in the era of generative AI.
• Chris Chambers Goodman, Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, Critical Race Theory and Generative Artificial Intelligence: Understanding & Transforming Structural Bias in Subjugating Systems
• Dr. Melemaikalani Moniz, Postdoctoral Researcher, Abundant Intelligences, Toward A Decolonial Framework for Artificial Intelligence
• John Tehranian, Paul W. Wildman Chair and Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School, (C)aptured: Copyright Law’s Authorship Doctrine, the Body Politic and the Politics of the Body
• Moderator: Jerry Kang, Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Algorithms, Authorship, and Empire: Critical Race Perspectives on Technology and Control
This panel interrogates how emerging technologies and intellectual property law reproduce racial hierarchies. Presenters analyze how structural bias in generative AI perpetuates racial inequality, how settler colonialism and global “chip wars” shape the cultural and geopolitical stakes of AI in Oceania, and how copyright law’s fixation on authorship has historically denied marginalized communities recognition for their creative labor. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, decolonial scholarship, and feminist critiques, the panel reveals how technological and legal regimes—often framed as neutral or progressive—can reinforce subjugating systems. Collectively, these papers offer accountable and justice-oriented alternatives to the ways knowledge, creativity, and data are owned and controlled in the era of generative AI.
• Chris Chambers Goodman, Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, Critical Race Theory and Generative Artificial Intelligence: Understanding & Transforming Structural Bias in Subjugating Systems
• Dr. Melemaikalani Moniz, Postdoctoral Researcher, Abundant Intelligences, Toward A Decolonial Framework for Artificial Intelligence
• John Tehranian, Paul W. Wildman Chair and Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School, (C)aptured: Copyright Law’s Authorship Doctrine, the Body Politic and the Politics of the Body
• Moderator: Jerry Kang, Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
