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Women in AI: Ewa Luger explores how AI affects culture — and vice versa
Ewa Luger, profiled as part of TechCrunch's series on women in AI, is co-director at the Institute of Design Informatics.
When COVID-19 hit, the value of the creative industries was so profound; we know that learning from history is critical to avoid making the same mistakes, and philosophy is the root of the ethical frameworks that have kept us safe and informed within medical science for many years. Going back to basics, the obvious first step is to address the composition of designers — ensuring that AI, informatics and computer science as disciplines attract women, people of color and representation from other cultures. I say this because plenty of people at the poverty line, or those from marginalized groups, fall below the threshold of interest, as they don’t have the economic or social capital to contest any negative outcomes, or to raise them to public attention.
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