Post by Women Shaping AI

The Pope recently warned that “a more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.” That line gets to the heart of one of the biggest risks in AI today: Women are still missing from too many parts of the AI pipeline. According to a recent article in The Times: ⚡ Women found about 20% of AI startups globally, but only 10% remain female-led as companies scale ⚡ Women represented 41% of TIME’s top 100 most influential AI figures in 2023, but only 28% in 2025 ⚡ Women make up just 18% of AI researchers and machine learning engineers ⚡ Only 1 in 20 tech CEOs are women Source: https://lnkd.in/g-BCqaXP This is a representation problem, but it's also a product problem, a governance problem, a safety problem, and a future of work problem. When women are not in the room, AI systems are more likely to miss women’s realities. The article offers several examples: ⚡ AI health models that diagnose men more accurately than women because clinical data skews male. ⚡ Transcription tools that make more errors with women’s voices. ⚡ Parenting advice tools that tell an exhausted single mother to “take a break,” missing the reality of her life entirely. These may look like technical gaps, but they are actually context gaps. AI does not only need more engineers. It needs more women who understand lived experience, policy, caregiving, leadership, health, education, work, risk, and community. As one founder quoted in the piece said, “You don’t need to be a coder. You need to understand the problem well enough to direct the technology towards a human solution.” That is the opportunity. Women do not need to wait for permission to enter the AI conversation. We need more women learning AI, using AI, questioning AI, building with AI, governing AI, investing in AI, and leading AI. Women Shaping AI is a global community where women from all walks of life come together to learn about AI, build confidence and capability, and open doors for each other. If that resonates, we’d love to have you join us: www.womenshapingai.com #womenshapingai #womeninai #aileadership #responsibleai #futureofwork