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What DEI leaders need to know about Artificial Intelligence, with Tracey Spicer

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing work and life as we know it. 2023 has seen a range of new AI tools become readily accessible to consumers, including ChatGPT and Google’s new search tool, Bard. However, many of these tools are built using historical data that’s riddled with bias, and as we begin integrating them into work and life, a significant new risk to diversity, equity and inclusion is emerging. 

In this masterclass, we’ll explore what DEI leaders and advocates need to understand and ask when contributing to organisational discussions on the use of AI tools in our workplaces. 

This discussion will include: 

  • What is AI and how does it work? 

  • How is AI likely to show up in our work & when? 

  • How is bias of the past being written into these tools? 

  • What risks and ramifications could AI have on DEI? 

  • What do we need to understand and advocate for as DEI leaders in organisations beginning to implement AI tools? 

  • How can AI be harnessed to benefit DEI? 

To guide our exploration of this topic is esteemed journalist, advocate and author, Tracey Spicer. In her recently-published book, Man-Made, Tracey aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give readers the tools to make positive change. 

As essential conversation for practitioners, leaders and advocates that’s not to be missed. 

Free for members, $20 for non-members. New members welcome to sign up here

Secure your spot now. 

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About Tracey Spicer AM

Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.

The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in Australia. In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia.

In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey has been awarded the Order of Australia.

Highlights of her outstanding career include writing, producing and presenting documentaries on women and girls in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea and India. She is an Ambassador for ActionAid, the Ethnic Business Awards and Purple Our World, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance.

Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted almost seven million views worldwide.

Tracey’s essays have appeared in dozens of books including Women of Letters, She’s Having a Laugh, Father Figures, Unbreakable, and Bewitched & Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years.

The ABC highlighted Tracey’s #metoo work in the three part documentary series Silent No More, which featured the stories of hidden survivors. Her new book, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2023.