28th August 2025

The New Age of Sexism: AI, Gender, and the Urgency of Legal Reform

Join Equality Now and Sourcebooks for an urgent conversation about our digital future. 

As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, women, girls and marginalized communities face unprecedented threats. From AI-driven discrimination to deepfake sexual abuse, emerging technologies are weaponizing gender-based violence on a global scale. 

In her latest book The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates explores this worrying trend. This livestreamed brings together experts in digital rights, AI and gender to explore the themes of this book and discuss solutions and legal reform to ensure a more equitable digital future.

Who’s it for?

Policymakers, civil society, and anyone interested in the way emerging technologies will impact society and our shared future.

When is it?

Tuesday September 9, 2025, 12pm EST

Where is it?

Online via Zoom

Panelists:

  • Laura Bates
    Laura Bates is an activist, writer, speaker and journalist. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality and author of The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny. 
  • Joy Buolamwini
    Joy Buolamwini is a “poet of code” who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more equitable and accountable technology.

  • Amanda Manyame
    Amanda Manyame is Equality Now’s Digital Law and Rights Advisor, working with Equality Now and the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi) at the intersection of tech and law, advising governments, intergovernmental organisations, regulators, and tech companies on the considerations that influence tech policy and digital rights.

  • Moderator: Mona Sinha
    Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now.

Photo credit: Siggi Holm

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