The digital glass ceiling (2/2) - how employers can best tackle the risk of AI-based gender discrimination

There are widespread concerns that AI is both amplifying and accelerating existing gender bias and discrimination in the workplace (see previous article).

But there are also various things that employers can do to try and reduce the impact of such unfairness on their female (and other minority) employees.

Jo Stansfield is a Founder and Director of culture transformation consultancy Inclusioneering and Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University. She says that a good starting point is to be aware of where discrimination issues are most likely to occur, especially in systems that could cause the "biggest harm", such as HR. As such, Stansfield advocates taking a risk approach to the challenge:

We need to start taking control over what systems we're using, how we deploy them, and how we evaluate them to see if they're doing what they should and if we need to intervene. So, the first step is to map...

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