Is AI Creating Intersectional Class Discrimination?

Prof Emerita Geraldine Van Bueren KC is chair of the Alliance of Working Class Academics Worldwide https://www.workingclassacademics.com, and is completing Class and Law (Hart forthcoming). She served as a Commissioner on the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, is one the drafters of the UN Convention on the Rights of Child and her latest book on children’s rights is co-authored with Angela Jolie.

Angelo Capuano is a law lecturer at Central Queensland University. He is the author of ‘Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace: Mapping Inequality in the Digital Age’, which was published by Bristol University Press in 2023. Angelo’s research interests include law and the future of work, including the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms and social media in employment. He has a particular interest in social origin, class and disability discrimination. Angelo’s published work has been used in recent court and tribunal decisions in Australia and South Africa, including by the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He brings years of practical experience to his academic work, having been previously employed as a lawyer and legal researcher within the Victorian government.

Costanza Nardocci, PhD, is Professor in Constitutional Law, Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law, University of Milan, Italy. She teaches “Gender Justice”, “Women in Tech: New Frontiers of Gender-Related Rights and Artificial Intelligence”, “Human rights and climate change”. She taught “Women Empowerment and Sustainable Development”, at the University of Milan, Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law.

She is teaching coordinator of the Specialization Course on gender-based violence at the University of Milan. She is member of the Steering Committee of the HAICU Lab Project on artificial intelligence within the U7+ Alliance.

She has been Visiting Scholar in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 at the School of International and Public Affairs and at the Law School, Columbia University, in 2023 and 2024 at Fordham Law School. Her scientific research involves constitutional law and human rights law with a focus on human rights; minority rights; gender studies; multiculturalism; anti-discrimination law; racial discrimination; women’s rights; indigenous people; constitutional justice; artificial intelligence. She is the author of more than 80 articles in books and scientific journals and she is the author of three monographs: Razza e etnia. La discriminazione tra individuo e gruppo nella dimensione costituzionale e sovranazionale, (ENG: Race and Ethnicity. Discrimination between the individual and the group in the Constitutional and Supranational Dimension), Collana “Sovranità, Federalismo, Diritti”, Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, 2016; Il diritto al Giudice costituzionale, (ENG: The Right to the Constitutional Justice), Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, 2020; Intelligenza artificiale e discriminazioni, (ENG: Artificial Intelligence and Discriminations), Giappichelli, Turin, forthcoming.