The New Age of Sexism is a tour of the ways in which women are being sexualised and abused in the metaverse

New Age of Sexism is a profoundly disturbing tour of this brave new world, and the myriad ways in which women are being sexualised and abused in it.

Too many of our conversations about the perils of artificial intelligence ( AI ), Laura Bates argues, focus on humanity’s eventual extinction, but the damage is already here.

In the new arms race, the technology is developing too quickly and the profit incentives are too great for Big Tech to pay much heed to this fact.

In the attention economy, the AI ’s protections against abuse are worth little compared to the overpowering need to keep users online.

In 2016 , Microsoft created a chatbot called Tay , which interacted with users on Twitter and learned from these interactions.

Such biases don’t just affect social media interactions but crucial decision-making in areas such as healthcare, recruitment, finance and justice.