Tracey Spicer reveals True Story of AI

We are exceptionally excited to be launching highlights of the True Story non-fiction  festival program on October 7 with the help of award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer, who has written a genuinely urgent book about how gendered the world of Artificial Intelligence is. And if you think that doesn’t matter or won’t impact on your life, think again, because it will. It already is. It will also make a difference to you if you are any shade other than white.

Tracey has done exhaustive research around the world to understand the implications of AI being skewed towards the people who design it. Her analysis is trenchant, alarming and also at times blackly funny. But it is a warning call to us all that this new technology, already very much present  in our lives in so many ways, has profound implications for our working lives, our sense of privacy, concerns about security, policing, surveillance, financial and other data information. Not to mention sex.

Already a bestseller, Man-Made is about a lot more than clever gadgetry and convenience. Knowledge is power, data is more valuable than oil. You can’t afford to miss what Tracey has to say.

To book your ticket for this one-off event, click here.

The full True Story festival program will be released in the November issue of the Flame. You’ll want to be there, so save the dates of November 18/19 now. And tell your friends. Numbers are limited.

– Caroline Baum, Sarah Nicholson and Genevieve Swart, True Story curators