AI is not neutral. The gender gap in AI runs through the data it is trained on, the people who build it and the people who use it. And in legal, almost nobody talks about it.
Nicky Leijtens, co-founder of She Breaks the Law and part of Bird & Bird, joins Hidde Bruinsma with examples that stick. Ask ChatGPT for career advice as a girl and the answer is less encouraging than the one a boy gets. Women make up 22% of AI development teams, a number that has not moved in ten years of Stanford research. At the M&A Awards, 42 nominations included exactly one woman.
Why does the gender gap in AI stay off the agenda while every conference talks adoption and implementation? And what can you do tomorrow, whether you build, buy or simply use legal AI?
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:05 She Breaks the Law: 4,000 women in 50 countries
07:43 Rechtwijzer and better justice journeys
13:51 The gender gap in AI nobody talks about
14:39 AI is not neutral: data, users, builders
16:39 Airbags, heart attacks and the male default
18:08 Only 22% of AI builders are women
20:25 Closing the gender gap in AI: where to start
25:30 The Rik de Groot moment at Legal Geek
29:14 Zeno question: auditing legal AI tools for bias
34:27 42 nominations, one woman at the M&A Awards
42:54 Antibodies: who is blocking the change
50:39 What you can do tomorrow about the gender gap in AI
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