We live in an age of conversations powered by artificial intelligence. From customer service chatbots to bots that help you meditate, conversational interfaces are becoming part of our everyday lives – some helping us to automate human work, and others aiming to improve wellbeing.

Yet chatbots can easily reinforce harmful gender stereotypes or promote discriminatory behaviour if their designers aren’t careful.

On this course, you’ll study feminism and its relationship to technology in order to help you build a feminist chatbot. You’ll learn feminist design tools and basic coding skills, before applying them to designing and programming a chatbot of your own.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

• Explore current uses of chatbots and how they work
• Interpret concepts of feminism and their relationship to technology
• Explore feminist design tools and how they can be applied to chatbot development
• Design a chatbot conversation using Whimsical flowcharts
• Produce a prototype of a chatbot using Glitch, a community programming environment