Daniella Gáti (he/she/they) is a lecturer in Creative Computing at the University of Salford. An interdisciplinary scholar of digital media and queer theory, Daniella studies how algorithms and AI transform society, paying special attention to how marginalized groups such as LGBTQ+ people are impacted by digital worlds. The key question of their current book project, entitled A Queer Theory of AI and Algorithmic Knowledge, is how AI shapes the processes through which we understand the world and ourselves. How does AI envision and represent gender and sexuality? What are the limits to AI’s conceptualization of diversity? How does AI impact the ways in which young people recognize and accept their sexual orientations and gender identities?  And how does AI deal with fluidity and uncertainty, concepts that are essential for both queerness and for being human more generally? These and related questions lie at the heart of Daniella’s TEDx talk.

Apart from researching and teaching at Salford, Daniella is also a member of the Transdisciplinary Queer Futures of AI research group, which is a European network of scholars working to imagine and construct fair, sustainable, and responsible ways forward for AI. Daniella’s writings have appeared in academic venues such as Critical Inquiry and The Journal of Narrative Theory as well as in more popular venues such as the queer magazine qLit.hu.