Alison Adam challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence of the world in her book which re-enforces criticisms of the AI project. Adam also shows how gender bias is programmed into AI-based systems using theories based on feminism.

Challenging the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world, this text aims to fill the gap in science and technology studies by showing how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Drawing from a wide range of social science, philosophical and feminist theory, and using tools of feminist epistemology, the author provides a sustained critique of AI which re-enforces and extends many of the traditional criticisms of the AI project.

Introduction, 1. Feminist resources, 2. AI in context, 3. The Knowing subject in AI, 4. Knowledge, language and rationality in AI, 5. Embodiment and situatedness - the artificial life alternative, 6. Feminist AI projects and cyberfutures, Notes, Bibliography.