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Nishant Shah is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center. He is a Feminist, Humanist, and Technologist dedicated to fostering community-driven projects and building exchanges and solidarities within the Majority World. His research intersects emerging technologies, gender, sexual and climate justice, and freedom of speech. As the Principal Investigator of the GAIN (Generative AI Network), he focuses on cultivating anticipatory skills and languages that orient towards care, rather than defense. Shah has designed and runs the 'Possible AIs: Speculative Technology Institute', which equips movement builders with frameworks to critically address ownership claims in AI applications. He advises multiple organizations in philanthropy, working to create sustainable infrastructures that support the Majority World, and he is engaged in projects that explore digital technologies through a decolonial lens. His work emphasizes knowledge co-creation, adoption, training, and critical reflection, emphasizing radical hope and the importance of collective action. Shah advocates for a reconsideration of academia's privileges and aims to facilitate challenging dialogues that promote polyvocal discourse about collective futures.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).