Book Review: The New Age of Sexism

Written by: Duncan B. on 3 October 2025

Every day brings us new developments in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many of these are beneficial, leading to great advances in medicine and science. However, there is a dark side to many innovations in AI.

The New Age of Sexism. How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny, by Laura Bates, shows how new AI-driven technologies are endangering the rights and safety of women. The author is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project which fights against gender inequality, harassment, discrimination and abuse. 

She discusses how Artificial Intelligence has allowed the development of Deep Fake pornography which has led to fake pornographic images of innocent women and girls being circulated on the Internet. She examines robot sex dolls, AI-powered chatbot girlfriends and on-line stalking in the Metaverse. She shows how AI-based algorithms used by social media sites such as You Tube and X continually steer men to sexist and misogynistic content. All of this is contributing the regression in women’s rights occurring in many countries, including the US under Trump. 

Artificial Intelligence is being developed by companies controlled by men like Zuckerberg and Musk. They are rushing ahead with little concern for the effects of AI on the lives of people. They prioritise the rapid growth of AI over ethics and safety.

Governments around the world are trying to legislate on the use of AI, but the tech billionaires don’t want to be subject to any form of government legislation, restrictions or penalties. They are supported by Trump, who threatens economic retaliation against any country which tries to take any form of action against his techbro mates. 

Artificial Intelligence must be taken out of the hands of the billionaires and placed in the service of the people. AI should not just be a way for tech billionaires to become trillionaires!

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