04/07/2026
We’re excited to welcome Professor Natalie Nenadic for an engaging Keynote discussion exploring the history of philosophy, American feminist thought, and the real-world harms of AI deepfake po*******hy 🤔🧠📜💡📚
🗓️ Friday, April 10th
🕐 10:30-11:30 a.m.
📍 Helm Library Classrooms 3002 & 3008
Don’t miss this opportunity!
Talk Abstract:
AI has delivered an explosion of deepfake po*******hy, 99% of whose targets are females, resulting in life-shattering trauma. These existential experiences and their sex-specific nature signal a pressing philosophical challenge. Deeper understanding demands considering them in relation to major resonant ideas from the history of philosophy and thought. This rapport discloses a hidden dimension of the problem, compelling us to question prevailing concepts that conceal it and to posit better ones that can “see” it. The central relevant historical-philosophical source is the paradigm shift about po*******hy, in its earlier technological forms, put forth nearly fifty years ago by American feminism to address the explosion of po*******hy then. This paradigm shift challenged prevailing views that po*******hy is harmless and liberating and showed it as a central practice in the subordination of women. I summarize these harms to challenge prevailing views today about deepfake po*******hy, which consider it harmless, even liberating, or that consider its harms as having nothing to do with earlier technological po*******hy. I show that deepfakes are a logical outcome of the harms that feminism showed about earlier po*******hy, with AI expanding the dragnet of targets.
