Aisha Sobey

she/her
Research Associate
A simple drawing of a boxy woman with pink skin and blue hair, wearing a green top and dark blue trousers with her hands in her pockets. She is smiling at the viewer.
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Aisha is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridges’ Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, who works on the construction of systemic power within technology. She is concerned with the treatment of the non-normative body in AI systems, such as healthcare and generative AI image models, and the interaction of these systems with one another. Her site of focus is the fat body and how this frame intersects with other systems of oppression. She is passionate about championing inclusivity and access in her work.

Sessions

How Body Standards are Embedded in Generative AI Image Models

Aisha Sobey

Summary
When prompted to show a person, generative AI image models tend to show thin, able-bodied, beautiful people. This talk takes a whistle-stop tour around AI and data bias, fat liberation, and disability studies to ask: why is this happening? Why is this a problem? And what can we do about it?
Activism
Diversity
Feminism
AI
Lightning Talk
English
Conference