Is AI the New Frontier of Women's Oppression? In her new book, feminist author Laura Bates explores how sexbots, AI assistants, and deepfakes are reinventing misogyny and harming women. After spending her early twenties as a nanny in the UK, Laura Bates noticed that the young girls she was caring for were preoccupied by their bodies, spurred on by the marketing they were receiving. In 2012, Bates, a London-based feminist author and activist, started The Everyday Sexism Project, a website dedicated to documenting and combatting sexism, misogyny, and gendered violence around the world by highlighting insidious instances of it such as invisible labor, referring to women as girls and commenting on their attire in professional settings. The site was turned into a book in 2014.

A free introductory session is offered to anyone new to online learning. Artificial Intelligence and The Environmental Crisis: Can technology really save the world? Based on his latest book of the same title, Dr Keith Skene explores the history of artificial intelligence, its contributions to humanity and the dangers it may pose. We'll encounter many interesting characters, key events and controversial moments associated with this rapidly developing field. We'll then explore what human intelligence is and how other forms of intelligence (including plant, animal, bacterial and ecosystem intelligence) offer alternative ways of thinking.