Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are already reshaping the world around us,

but how are age-old inequalities showing up in this new digital frontier?

In the New Age of Sexism, author and feminist activist, Laura Bates explores how bias now being noted everywhere,

from ChatGPT to the Metaverse, that's the immersive virtual

world launched by Meta back in 2021. She recently spoke with Omnavaz about her new book.

Laura Bates, welcome to The News Hour. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me.

So this is your eighth book, correct? You have spent years documenting, studying, and writing about sexism and misogyny in all parts

of our world.

But there is an urgency to this book.

Because to be clear, you're not talking about what could happen.

You're talking about what's already happening.

And you say that we're on an edge of a precipice.

What does that mean?

Absolutely. I mean,

our world is about to be transformed by AI and other emerging technologies in ways that I think

it's hard for people to fully grasp socially, culturally, culturally, economically, in terms of

education, in terms of news media, in terms of the financial services industry, the criminal

justice sector, you name it,

it is about to be changed. And right now the foundations of those new forms, those new worlds,

are being built. What's happening is that we are seeing that emerging technologies and AI in

particular are re-embedding existing problems, particularly structural inequalities like

sexism and racism, into the foundations of that new world that we will all be living in.

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