Workshop AI and Equality Event

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Date:: 2026-04-15 12:27:00 2026-04-16 14:47:00
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have rapidly become embedded across a wide range of social, economic and political contexts. These systems are increasingly relied upon to help make decisions that have far-reaching impacts on individuals and communities. This includes predictive algorithms used in policing and healthcare, to the automation of immigration welfare systems, and governance of workplaces through algorithmic management systems. In addition to supposed efficiency and productivity gains, these tools are sometimes claimed to help identify and eradicate bias and inequality. Often, however, they have the effect of replicating and even exacerbating social inequalities. Against this background, the Research Centre for Law and Technology and Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law at the University of Southampton invite critical reflections on the equality impacts of AI, alongside assessments of current and emerging legal and regulatory responses to address these harms. This one-day workshop will bring together scholars and practitioners from across disciplines to interrogate algorithmic biases and consider frameworks and strategies to build more inclusive, rights-based, and participatory AI systems.

15th April 2026

Women, Equality and AI (panel A)

Gabriel Bayarri, Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid): “Punitive Laughter, Algorithmic Bias: How AI-Mediated Humour Produces Gendered Inequalities, and What Law Can Do (remote due to change in travel plans)”
Anastasia Karagianni, Vrije Universiteit Brussel: “Gender as a risk factor under the risk classification system of the AI Act”

AI & Discrimination

Tetyana Krupiy, Newcastle University: “Algorithmic repackaging of harm: the role of the prohibition of discrimination in prohibiting harmful price discrimination “
Rachel Humphris & Nika Manic, Queen Mary University of London: “Datafied Deservingness: Bordering from within the welfare/workfare state “
Holli Sargeant, University of Cambridge: “Encoding Equality: The Incompatibility of Algorithmic Logic and Substantive Law”

AI as a Solution to Inequality

Fabian Lütz, Université de Lausanne: “Constitutional AI? By design approaches as complements to legal frameworks to ensure gender equality and reduce algorithmic discrimination”
Neethi Shikha, University of the West of England: “Generative AI, Equality, and Legal Education: Using Pedagogical Design to Level the Learning Field”
Eu Sun Godwin, University of Wolverhampton: “Epistemic injustice in Artificial Intelligence for Disabled People: from Human Right perspective”
Vanessa Ho, Queen Mary University London: "Equality data practices in British universities: implications of technology"

16th April 2026

Women, Equality & AI (panel B)

Martina Gandolfi, University of Milan: “Gender Equality in the Age of New Technologies and AI: Criminal Law Responses to Cyber Gender-Based Violence in Europe”
Maria Tzanou & Tsachi Keren-Paz, University of Sheffield: “Femtech wearables and embodied harms: a new regulatory approach”
Monique Munarini, University of Pisa: “Assessing reliable AI: Incorporating an equity approach to accountability tools from a feminist and decolonial perspective”

Labour Market Inequality

Elisa Parodi, Department of Law of the University of Torino (Italia): “Automated job advertising, anti-discrimination law and the risk of co-producing algorithmic bias”
Matteo Avogaro, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona: “Fair AI-Based Recruitment: a Policy-Oriented Assessment of Recent EU Legal Responses to Algorithmic Bias”
Miriam Kullman, Utrecht University: “Opportunities and challenges for gender equality in labour markets transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and platform work”

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