Aur茅lie Petit was the Scotiabank Doctoral Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the AI + Society Initiative at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
At the AI + Society Initiative, Aur茅lie Petit (she/her) worked on the ethics of synthetic visual sex media governance with Dr. Jason Millar and the team at CRAiEDL.
Aur茅lie Petit is a Ph.D. candidate in Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. As a visual and social researcher, she specializes in the intersection of technology and animation, with a focus on gender and sexuality. Her thesis examines the role that U.S.-based Japanese animation online communities played in shaping contemporary sociotechnical uses of social media, and in particular exclusionary practices towards women users.
During the Summer of 2023, she was a PhD intern at Microsoft Research (Cambridge, MA), working with Tarleton Gillespie on the limits of automated content moderation for animated pornographic media.