AI is increasingly being weaponized against marginalized and oppressed groups, exacerbating the digital divide and contributing to bias and digital forms of discrimination.

For Palestinians, popular image generators often reinforce harmful stereotypes, erase histories and cultures, and normalize scenes of horrific devastation and loss. But what if AI technologies were used to affirm Palestinian narratives and futures, rather than contributing to their erasure, epistemicide, and digital dehumanization?

As AI-generated images and content become integral to global communication systems, these technologies alarmingly replicate the biases and hegemonic narratives of the Global North. This replication has a particularly detrimental impact on marginalized, oppressed, and at-risk communities.

In response, I am developing a series of participatory and critical archival methodologies as an artistic intervention to reimagine generative AI systems, with a focus on Palestinian narratives and the SWANA region more broadly.

The purpose of this archive is to offer hope, honor lived experience, histories, and narratives, actively countering futurcide. This initiative seeks to reimagine or retool AI as a tool for preserving and amplifying the stories and futures of marginalized and opppressed communities, rather than contributing to their erasure.