Why are there still so few women in tech?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The boss of Apple, Tim Cook, tells the BBC there are no good excuses for the persistent gender imbalance in tech. We ask women starting their careers in the sector what needs to change. How the EU is making it easier to sue when AI goes wrong. And our Silicon Valley reporter James Clayton takes a ride around the streets of San Francisco in a self-driving taxi.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.3 | It's time for TechTenter and this week we're getting to grips with a persistent problem that the tech sector just can't seem to solve. Why is it still so male dominated? |
| 0:40.8 | I met the boss of Apple Tim Cook this week for an exclusive interview. He told me what he thinks, |
| 0:46.2 | and a panel of women setting up tech firms told me their views. Also this week, if a robot or a drone or anything AI powered goes wrong, |
| 0:55.1 | whose fault is it? The EU wants to make it easier to sue a robot or a drone or anything AI powered goes wrong, whose fault is it, |
| 0:58.8 | the EU wants to make it easier to sue the manufacturers with a draft law catchly titled the AI Liability Directive. |
| 1:02.6 | And asked Silicon Valley reporter James Clayton on what it's like to be driven around San Francisco, |
| 1:07.6 | on your own, in a driverless taxi. |
| 1:09.8 | Oh, this is interesting. Okay, there's a bus in our lane |
| 1:11.7 | and there are cars to our left. So what's it going to do? Oh, oh. Okay, it's pulling out left. |
| 1:19.5 | Oh, and now the bus is coming out right. It really doesn't know what to do. Oh, there's a car behind us. |
| 1:24.4 | Like, this is just bad driving. |
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