Technology's default setting is 'male' — more precisely a white, or at least, light-skinned male.
Tracey Spicer exposes how technology and AI has embedded sexism and racism into the future. It's the next frontier of feminism.
But who is responsible? Big Tech, refusing to spend money to fix the problem? The world's politicians, who lack the will to legislate? Or should we all be taking a good, hard look at ourselves?
Man-Made presented at the Byron Writers Festival, supported by Southern Cross University. August 13, 2023
Speakers
Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster
Author of Man-Made: How the Bias of the Past is Being Built into the Future
Paul Barclay (host)
Award-winning broadcaster