November 26, 2021 WATCH: Women’s Forum 2021- Deploying AI as an instrument of inclusion Author(s): MCTD Cambridge Credit: Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society Recently, Professor Gina Neff, Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, moderated a Women’s Forum 2021 session on the role of women in designing safety systems to contrast the problem of online hate and abuse. Big tech platforms are struggling against the problem of online hate and abuse, and bad actors are persistent in their attacks. How can we design trust and safety systems that not only monitor and mitigate this issue, but directly counteract it? What role might women play in designing these? And how might diversity in design teams and processes increase the effectiveness of anti-hate solutions? With: – Rumman Chowdhury, Director of ML Ethics, Twitter – Sara Clemens, Chief Operating Officer, Twitch – Kate Scott, Partner, Clifford Chance – Gina Neff, Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge (Moderator)