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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast
Episode: Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism
Description: This week, writer and activist Laura Bates joins Ellen and Alona to discuss her latest book The New Age of Sexism. Best known for founding the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, Laura has spent more than a decade documenting the realities of gender-based discrimination. In her new book, she turns her attention to the digital world—where artificial intelligence is giving rise to disturbing new forms of misogyny.  Laura explains how technologies like deepfakes and AI chatbots are being weaponised against women, what her experiences of raising awareness in school...