UNESCO 2021 Save the Date: Girl Trouble: Breaking Through Bias in AI - online panel

UNESCO 2021 Save the Date

Girl Trouble: Breaking Through Bias in AI online panel 

 

Time: 15h-17.30h CET, Monday 8 March, International Women's Day

 

 

UNESCO and the World Economic Forum join forces to host an online panel on gender equality and women's leadership in Artificial Intelligence. 

A Q and A session with registered journalists has been scheduled, only registered journalists will be able to ask questions. 

 

Journalists, please register: here

 

 

Two panels will confront the deep-rooted gender imbalances skewing artificial intelligence design: 

 

1. The female training and recruitment crisis in AI: Women's voices are not feeding into the blueprint for our future. World Economic Forum data shows only 22% of AI professionals globally are women. Companies hiring experts for AI and data science jobs estimate fewer than 1% of the applications they receive come from women. Women and girls are 4 times less likely to know how to programme computers, and 13 times less likely to file for technology patents. They are also less likely to occupy leadership positions in tech companies. Last month, UNESCO's To Be Smart, the Digital Revolution will need to be inclusive warned women are at risk of being left behind in the race for jobs in AI. What can we do to recruit and retain more women in AI?

2. AI is biased against women: Leading research company, Gartner predicts that in 2022, 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams responsible for managing them. UNESCO's seminal report 'I'd Blush if I Could', showed that AI-powered voice assistants like Alexa and Siri perpetuate harmful stereotypes of women as submissive and subservient. 

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To Interview Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General of Social and Human Sciences, leading the development of UNESCO's Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, or any of the panelists please contact 

Clare O'Hagan: c.o-hagan@unesco.org; +44 7715 991279

 

Please see 'Meet the Panelists', attached for details.

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The panel will be livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook. Follow it directly on 8 March here: https://en.unesco.org/girltrouble

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