Laura Bates:
Absolutely.
I mean, our world is about to be transformed by A.I. and other emerging technologies in ways that I think it’s hard for people to fully grasp, socially, culturally, economically, in terms of education, in terms of news media, in terms of the financial services industry, the criminal justice sector, you name it. It is about to be changed.
And, right now, the foundations of those new forms, those new worlds are being built. What’s happening is that we are seeing that emerging technologies and A.I. in particular are re-embedding existing problems, particularly structural inequalities like sexism and racism, into the foundations of that new world that we will all be living in.
So, if we don’t act now, if we don’t talk about this now, it’s going to be very difficult to unpick later on.
