Technosymbiosis

Proposed by N. Katherine Hayles in the 2023 volume Feminist AI, technosymbiosis is an attempt to preserve what is useful in Haraway's companion species framework while addressing the specific asymmetries of the human-AI relationship. Hayles argued that Haraway's later work, with its emphasis on multispecies kinship and making kin with other organisms, has little, if anything, to contribute to feminist interventions with AI because it is focused exclusively on biological organisms. Technosymbiosis keeps the insight that constitutive entanglement matters while acknowledging that a builder's relationship with Claude cannot be modeled directly on a handler's relationship with her dog.