With AI tools becoming increasingly commonplace, and with technology developing at breakneck speed, an emerging focus of our pro bono work is the impacts of these technologies on our community partners and the cohorts they represent.
Our pro bono partnership with Basic Rights Queensland’s Working Women Queensland (WWQ) program included a secondment resulting in a research paper and presentation on the impact of AI on women’s work that looks at the extent and barriers that would need to be addressed to increase female representation in STEM.
Our ongoing work with WWQ continues to look at this issue to ensure that the impact of AI for women’s work is positive. We’re not just talking about the female dominated jobs that AI will replace. What are the new AI jobs that will create new feminised industries? How will AI impact women’s working conditions, sexual harassment and new opportunities?
The BRQ inquiry submission can be found here.
We are also partnering with Women’s Legal Service NSW to look at how new technology will impact victim-survivors of family and domestic violence and what measures can be taken to protect women from technology-facilitated abuse.
We’re helping our community partners to look beyond the risks and opportunities we know of, to those just around the corner, of which many of us are not yet aware.
Wotton Kearney acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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