Kalindi Vora

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Kalindi Vora is a leading scholar at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, critical race theory, and labor studies. Her research interrogates how emerging technologies—from artificial intelligence to robotics—are embedded within systems of racial capitalism and patriarchy. Vora’s most influential work, *Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures* (co-authored with Neda Atanasoski, 2019, 32 citations), traces how robots and AI function as surrogates for human labor, revealing the racial and gendered logics underpinning technological futures. In her paper “The Surrogate Effect: Technoliberalism and Whiteness in a ‘Post’ Labor Era” (2018, 5 citations), she unpacks the contradictions between white supremacy and racial liberalism within the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Her provocative analysis in “Why the Sex Robot becomes the Killer Robot” (2020, 3 citations) further examines the limits of refusal in reproductive and care labor. Vora’s work has profoundly shaped debates on the politics of automation, offering a critical framework for understanding how technology perpetuates inequality. Her scholarship is essential reading for anyone studying the social and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies.