Gaskin: The AI trajectory risk for women in the workplace
- Mar 16
- 1 min read
When people talk about AI horrors, they often reach for science fiction: human-like robots with AI supercomputing power taking over the world, a rogue actor engineering a deadly virus, or mass job displacement as algorithms replace workers at scale while a handful of companies reap enormous profits.
The deeper risk is trajectory.
Dr. Felicia Newhouse, founder of AI-Powered Women, explains AI trajectory risk simply: who builds AI determines how knowledge itself is organized. Today, that future knowledge is being shaped by a remarkably narrow group — predominantly white men from the same institutions, networks, and capital pipelines.
The result is not just biased tools. It is a future in which narrow assumptions become defaults — embedded in systems that quietly govern opportunity, access, and judgment.
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