Terms-we-Serve-with: a feminist-inspired social imaginary for improved transparency and engagement in AI

TL;DR

This paper proposes the Terms-we-Serve-with (TwSw), a feminist-inspired social imaginary aimed at transforming digital contracts to enhance transparency, consent, and agency, addressing power imbalances in AI systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interdisciplinary framework combining social, computational, and legal perspectives to reshape digital contracts and empower users against algorithmic harms.

Findings

Proposes the TwSw social contract concept

Highlights the importance of feminist-inspired approaches

Suggests pathways for regulatory reform

Abstract

Power and information asymmetries between people and digital technology companies have predominantly been legitimized through contractual agreements that have failed to provide diverse people with meaningful consent and contestability. We offer an interdisciplinary multidimensional perspective on the future of regulatory frameworks - the Terms-we-Serve-with (TwSw) social, computational, and legal contract for restructuring power asymmetries and center-periphery dynamics to enable improved human agency in individual and collective experiences of algorithmic harms.