AI, bro? No! How do we stop AI being the next tech 'bro' domain?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly powerful over so many aspects of our lives, from whether we get a mortgage to what treatment we get in hospital. But women and minority groups aren't proportionally represented in the development of the technology, leading to concerns that AI systems will become more biased and unethical. According to the World Economic Forum, only 22% of all AI professionals globally are women; meanwhile, research from The Alan Turing Institute has revealed that only eight percent of UK researchers who contribute to the leading machine learning conferences are women. So, decision-making machines are shaping the world, but the people whose work underpins that vision aren't representative of the society these systems are supposed to serve. Technology, as I'm sure we all know, is not neutral.