Elisabeth Greve

Elisabeth (Ellie) Greve is a PhD student at Concordia University in the Department of Communication Studies.

Her doctoral research is focused on studying today’s AI-enabled home technologies, or “domestic AI.” In particular, her work investigates the link between gender and automation, evaluating how “domestic AI” technologies were largely prefigured in gendered visions of early home automation.

Elisabeth earned her master’s degree in Communication and New Media at McMaster University. Her research parsed the attempts of generative AI companies to position their products as “open,” interrogating how industry players present “openness” as an ethical response to the threats and concerns posed by generative AI. The work questioned the way in which this rhetoric shifts accountability, obfuscates power, and what it might overwrite, neglect, and leave out.

Broadly, her research interests include science and technology studies (STS), artificial intelligence (AI), history of technology, and feminist studies.