In this paper, I critically rethink how interdisciplinary approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) are framed, particularly in relation to technology-facilitated gender- and sexuality-based violence (TFGSBV). While collaboration across disciplines is often positioned as a solution to AI-related harms, I argue that these approaches can reproduce the very exclusions they aim to address. Drawing on my work with the Feminist Internet Research Network and dialogues with researchers and activists across the Majority Worlds, I propose liveability – not only as a principle, but as a practice – for interdisciplinary work.

Liveability refers to the conditions that allow individuals and communities to thrive – emotionally, politically and socially – even amid structural violence and technological harm. I treat interdisciplinarity not as a goal in itself, but as an ethical and relational process grounded in care, accountability and situated knowledge. Through feminist and queer perspectives, I examine how AI harms are often abstracted into technical problems, and I advocate for slower, more grounded practices that centre lived experience. Through lessons from Feminist Internet Research Network’s multistakeholder collaborations, I show how introducing liveability into interdisciplinary and multistakeholder work – particularly around TFGSBV – enables alternative, more inclusive forms of collaboration.

Liveability becomes a compass for working across difference, shifting interdisciplinary AI research towards justice, community and collective transformation.