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In this paper I explore a connection between artificial intelligence (AI) generally and a particular AI project called Cyc. I sketch out ties between epistemological issues about kinds of knowledge and concerns about how minority voices (with respect to class, race, gender or similar factors) might be marginalized. I take the goal of analyzing AI projects for systematic underrepresentation or exclusion of minority views to be at the heart of feminist theorizing. Importantly, the failure to adequately consider such minority views within AI projects is ultimately detrimental to the projects themselves. There are means, though, to defend this project against some of the criticisms
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Sherron, C. (2000). Constructing Common Sense. In: Balka, E., Smith, R. (eds) Women, Work and Computerization. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35509-2_14
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