Sierra Talbert

She is currently a PhD student in the Information Studies department at UCLA, where she researches the political, cultural, and societal dimensions of AI technologies, with a particular focus on questions of gender and race within the digital humanities and critical AI studies subfields. Her current research includes a sociotechnical, worker-centered analysis of an “accent neutralization” algorithm marketed for call center workers, and an analysis of the rapid dissemination of AI and the rhetoric of big tech executives using Du Bois’s research. Her emerging work explores new or repurposed methodologies within the digital humanities that center decoloniality.