AI is transforming our world at breakneck speed – but who is really in control? While technology promises progress, it also entrenches deep-seated inequalities, putting women’s rights and safety at risk. From deepfake pornography to biased algorithms and cyber exploitation, the AI revolution is amplifying misogyny in ways we can no longer ignore.

Laura Bates, Sunday Times bestselling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, joins us at The Conduit to examine how sexism is being hardwired into our digital future and what we can do to fight back, in conversation with Hannah MacInnes.

If you care about the intersection of technology, gender equality, and justice, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. The future is being coded now – it’s up to us to challenge it.

Speakers:

Laura Bates studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster, journalist and podcast host. She presents frequently on Times Radio and is host of How to Academy’s live programmes and podcast. Her interviewees include Bill Clinton, Melinda Gates, Jane Goodall, Jacinda Ardern and Louis Theroux. Hannah also hosts the Nibbies (British Book Awards) Podcast, The Klosters Forum Podcast and interviews on-stage and hosts at major literary events and climate summits. She has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for eight years at BBC Newsnight