Concept Note: Embodied Data and Just AI – An Exploration of

Moreover, and importantly, the shape and nature of all this data that we generate is a product of how we use our bodies to orient ourselves to the world, and are, in turn, received by the world. [...] Data justice, embodiment and AI While the above gives a sense of the growing number of arguments in favour of reinserting bodies into debates about data and AI (and just AI in particular), at present such arguments and their implications for the conceptualisation and implementation of just AI have not been systematically brought together in one research study. [...] In the context of exclusion and marginalisation, and acknowledging the power and potential of AI as the next general-purpose technology, the concept has been extended to also look at the policy and regulatory interventions required to redress the unevenness of the opportunities associated with these advanced data-driven technologies. [...] Because the ownership of large data stores and the ability to use them in data-driven systems is both geographically and economically concentrated in the United States and China, disadvantaged communities, particularly across Africa, experience the extraction of their data, without an opportunity to share in the benefits of data-driven innovation (Couldry & Mejias, 2020). [...] An embodied perspective on data further sharpens the scholarship on data justice and just AI by asking: what additional concerns and demands come to the fore if we consider the protection and promotion of the autonomy and bodily integrity of the datafied subject a core value? For example, how would our approach to the governance of data extraction shift if we consider it not merely extraction of a.