Dr Garfield Benjamin is an Assistant Teaching Professor at ICE. Garfield is a Science and Technology Studies scholar focused on the social inequalities surrounding AI and related technologies. Their research and teaching is concerned with issues of power, identity, trust, discrimination, privacy, injustice and marginalisation. Garfield's current work builds on queer performativity to unpick the roles and norms embedded within technology discourses. Garfield was previously a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Solent University, and Research Officer at the Birmingham Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy. Recent publications include the monograph Mistrust Issues: How Technology Discourses Quantify, Extract and Legitimise Inequalities (Bristol University Press) and articles on algorithmic protest, ‘cute’ surveillance, drone culture, and critiques of data collection, in venues such as FAccT, Surveillance and Society, AI & Society, and Internet Policy Review.
