{"id":6755,"date":"2023-08-18T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/?post_type=publication&p=6755"},"modified":"2023-08-18T18:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:07:47","slug":"submission-on-safe-and-responsible-ai-in-australia-dept-of-industry-science-and-resources","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/library\/submission-on-safe-and-responsible-ai-in-australia-dept-of-industry-science-and-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission on Safe and responsible AI in Australia, Dept of Industry, Science and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"
As communities that experience everyday consequences of digital discrimination and algorithmic bias, sex workers are uniquely positioned to provide input into technology governance and regulation. As a historically criminalised undertaking, sex work and sex workers have been marginalised through well-established discriminatory barriers relying on markers such as gender, race, migration status, marital status, asset ownership or lack thereof, familial geneology, class, education, citizenship, ability to present identity documents, proof and regularity of income, source of income and position in society as measured by having a respected \u2018job\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n These structural barriers, many of which amount to human rights violations, are now embedded in the delivery of systems and services both in human and algorithmic decision-making. In opposition to this, decades of campaigns to dismantle these barriers have led to significant progress towards the realisation of human rights for sex workers and other marginalised communities. Sex workers are highly invested in the question of if and how historic discrimination will be perpetuated and reintroduced through the widespread use of AI and ADM in Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n