AI & Misogyny
September 08, 2026 —
Andrew Fowlie
Read The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates. This was an urgent and alarming book, that occasionally trod close to but avoided alarmism, about the interplay and impacts of AI and technology on sexism and discrimination.
The book at times read like a thriller: it was emotive, shocking and fast-paced, but wasn't particularly theoretical, either on technology and AI; on the causes and origins of sexism; or on our economic system and the rise of big tech and monopoly capitalism. The book works, however, as an eye-opener about where we are already headed and as a passionate call to arms to think and do something about it.
Instead of sacrificing anything and everything to the whims of men like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Phillipp-Fussenegger, Cameron-James Wilson and a thousand others like them, instead of breathlessly enabling their ruthless pursuit of financial profit in the name of progress, we need to start from a place of sustainability, of fairness, of real, social progress, not technological development for the sake of it ...
... a different baseline of what progress looks like, what its goals are, who it serves and how it happens.