The News
Our Chair, Lotta Malm Hallqvist, has a new piece in The AI Journal with a pointed argument: AI is being shaped by too narrow a slice of humanity. Women make up 29% of the global tech workforce but only 14% of tech leaders — and that imbalance, she argues, is everyone's problem, not just women's.
Why it matters
As more decisions with real human stakes — warfare, misinformation, who keeps their job — get delegated to AI, the perspectives left out of the room get baked into the systems we all rely on.
"We are steadily handing decisions with real human consequences to AI systems trained on our own imperfect data, inheriting our biases while presenting their conclusions as fact."
The risk isn't evenly shared, either. Lotta points to research suggesting nearly 28% of women's jobs are exposed to AI, against 21% of men's — even as women remain underrepresented among the people building the technology.
What she's calling for
Her answer isn't to slow AI down for its own sake, but to widen who shapes it — tying diversity to real decision-making power, demanding bias testing before release, and valuing the kind of experience and judgement that are in short supply in the rooms where AI gets built.
"Women (especially older ones) hold the skills central to influencing AI for the good. They have years of experience and judgement, are well versed in empathy."
It's a conviction that runs through how we build Multiply: technology that amplifies human judgement rather than replacing it.
Read the full piece
The full article is on The AI Journal.
