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Tracey Spicer: How AI and machine design is failing women

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Technology's default setting is 'male' — more precisely a white, or at least, light-skinned male.(Supplied: Diabetes UK)

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

Tracey Spicer AM

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

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Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Women, Gender Discrimination
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