Defining AI for good and overcoming tech superpower roadblocks – Anne-Marie Imafidon, CEO, Stemettes

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, CEO and co-founder of the Stemettes, discusses the power of role models for women in tech, how AI for good shouldn’t just focus on boosting productivity, and why a fixation on ‘wokeism’ is a roadblock to the government's science and tech superpower goals.

Imafidon is a British-Nigerian social entrepreneur and computer scientist. She founded Stemettes, a social enterprise promoting women in STEM, in 2013. Imafidon launched the Stemettes after becoming aware of the lack of diversity in degrees like science and maths. The University of Oxford alumna says that while there has been progress in improving diversity in tech, the root cause is yet to be addressed. Elsewhere on the show, Imafidon recalls the backlash she received as a Black woman appearing on Countdown, and why more work is needed on skills to hit the government’s tech superpower goals. Imafidon has previously served as a trustee for the Future of Work and held a board role for the government’s Department for Digital up until 2022. She was awarded an MBE for services to young women and the STEM sector in 2017.

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0:00.0	Can you be a science superpower if we're still arguing about what woke means when these people have existed in society for ages and the technology that we're doing is cross barriers and cross boundaries.
0:15.0	So you have to build for different types of folks.
0:25.6	If we look at AI for good, I don't believe this overriding message of increased productivity should be the centre of what good looks like.
0:29.6	The issue isn't the girls.
0:31.6	The issue is the story that we tell of technology, right?
0:34.6	It's the names that we have.
0:36.6	It's the faces that they get to see,
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1:17.5	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:23.2	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. And this week, I'm joined by
1:29.5	Anne-Marie Imaffodon, businesswoman and founder of Stamets, an organisation designed to inspire
1:36.7	and support young women, girls and non-binary people in the area of science, technology, engineering
1:43.1	and maths. Welcome, Anne-Marie. Hi, don't.
1:47.0	Lovely to talk to you. Now, let's start by talking about Stemetz. Now, this was founded back in 2013.
1:54.6	I think we spoke about it in the very early days of its founding. You're now celebrating your 10-year anniversary. So explain
2:03.1	to everybody listening what Stemetz is about, first of all. Sure. So Stemex is about, we call it
2:08.8	engaging, informing and connecting girls and young women and non-binary folk with the STEM field,
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