Dr Elise Stephenson joins Women's Agenda to unpack the gendered risks of AI, and why they're so urgent right now.
Speaking with Angela Priestley, the conversation moves from how AI reinforces existing inequality (rather than inventing brand-new problems) to the most immediate real-world risks for women and gender-diverse people in workplaces today.
Elise also outlines how AI could reshape relationships, abuse, and gender norms over time, including the role of LLMs and AI companions in subtly entrenching unhealthy dynamics.
Then, we move on to the risks to democracy, including those playing out right now, especially impacting women's participation: the harassment, disinformation, and AI-generated abuse pushing women out of public life and politics, and the question of who is funding and coordinating those attacks.
Finally, hope! Elise outlines what a feminist approach to AI actually looks like in practice, and closes with a clear call to action on Australia's guardrails and why it matters who is in the room when AI decisions get made.
This conversation comes as Elise has also just published Space XX: Gender, Power and the New Space Race. See our published extract on how women astronauts were once seen as a liability, but research suggests they could actually have an edge.
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