Garfield Benjamin

Garfield Benjamin serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, specializing in AI Ethics and Society. Their work critically investigates power structures and inequalities in technology through queer theoretical frameworks, with emphasis on AI systems, data governance, and algorithmic accountability.

Research interests integrate queer performativity to deconstruct normative roles in technological design and policy. Key focus areas include:

• Power dynamics in AI development and deployment
• Societal impacts of data extraction practices
• Protest movements and platform governance
• Policy formation around digital stakeholder engagement

Benjamin's 2023 monograph Mistrust Issues: How Technology Discourses Quantify, Extract and Legitimise Inequalities (Bristol University Press) analyzes how technological narratives perpetuate marginalization. Scholarly contributions in Internet Policy Review and Surveillance & Society examine stakeholder performativity in UK tech policy and critical perspectives on data 'collection'.

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