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AI Needs Fat Liberation! with Aisha Sobey

AI Needs Fat Liberation! with Aisha Sobey

Update: 2025-11-25
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In this episode, Aisha Sobey, a research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, explores how anti-fat bias shapes our digital lives. She discusses its effects on health technologies, social media, and generative AI, and explains why anti-fatness must be seen as a systemic issue. The conversation also highlights how ideas from fat liberation can help create more inclusive and fair technological design.

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