Questioning Postgenderism in AI Scripted Plays of the THEaiTRE Project: Crossing into Cyborg Citizenship

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Dept. of Humanities, College of Language and Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

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This paper combines the accentuated reconfiguration of gender and the emergence of artificial intelligence agency through the investigation of two AI scripted plays that belong to the THEaiTRE project. The two plays, predominantly composed by Theatrobot 1.0 & 2.0, an AI tool, foreground human robot interaction (HRI). The study proposes that the AI era considers Postgenderism as the bylaw of the AI era. In the name of gender equality, Postgenderism advocates the elimination of gender as a sociocultural descriptor through the intensified immersion in practices and routes of technoscience. Although trajectories like feminization and neutralization of AI gender are activated to withstand current gender bias, they themselves are seen as part of the Postgenderist discourse. Both plays under scrutiny emphasize the dissolution of gender showing slight instances of gender bias, yet immense dissemination of Postgenderism. The march towards a Postgenderist society takes the ideation of the cyborg citizen (Gray 2001) steps forward through the realization of Posthumanist superhumans.

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