The recent findings have emphasized that the acceleration of gender-equitable leadership positions in AI development is an ethical matter of concern. Nevertheless, business leaders in the UK who first recognized the need for this change have observed a big gap between what has been acknowledged as inevitable and what has been implemented so far in reality.
Insights from IBM report
Leading and responsible AI development is believed to be an issue of gender equity according to the report of IBM on gender equity which consulted decision-makers in organizations. Nevertheless, the research indicates duplicity in taking the oppressor to task.
IBM cites that 69% of English business leaders acknowledge that women should be actively engaged in AI decision-making processes. On top of this, 73% of them think that bringing more female employees into top management roles could help to solve possible sexism problems related to the AI sector.
A study shows that a more gender-balanced senior executive comprising women could lead to economic impacts. Approximately 74% declared that the raised amount of female leaders is pivotal in creating such conditions under which the whole of society can enjoy the economic co-benefits arising from AI utilization.
UK lags in female representation
Even though women’s leadership is becoming recognized as a critical goal for UK businesses, nevertheless they still fall behind the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) corporations in alignment with the female leaders. The figure rises slightly, however, the lowest among the surveyed markets, with the number of UK respondents who believe that women-advocating leadership positions is only one of the management priorities being 37%.
This is also evidence that has appeared in the report of IBM which is another 20% of the respondents of the UK have shown a lack of engagement with the issue of diversity and inclusiveness by the technology companies are parties that are hindering people from the women from an upper management position.
Talking about the strategic side of this case, Dr. Nicola Hodson, who is the head of IBM UK & Ireland, mentioned the significance of female representation in AI development. She however cautioned that there is a difference between just including the women in the top level positions and appointing them on that basis because gender equality is a strategic imperative.
The Role of Female Leaders in Ethical AI Development
The research shows that women’s attitudes towards AI implementation take more of an ethical approach. For training women in business, knowing how to offer the most useful strategic guidance in the context of AI emerged as the key leadership skill in the AI era. Eleanor Watson is a well-known public speaker, particularly in areas such as business, politics, spirituality, and leadership. Eleanor Watson of the IEEE and an AI ethics engineer pointed out how women do a lot to influence what’s good about AI and its ethics. She underlined the role of a woman’s inclination toward intimacy as it makes the AI ethical framework more reliable and secure.
According to Watson, biased AI systems can be fixed by the method in which the system is employed in the larger AI framework. Besides ensuring that AI tools were tailored to the specific use cases to reduce the occurrence of stereotyping errors, she spoke on the need to adopt this approach and avoid the use of a universal approach.
Apart from that, as the technology of AI gets more and more sophisticated and reliable, female leaders in this area become more prominent. The UK business leaders are aware that women are a valuable asset in the area of widespread AI deployment in their decision-making approach, however, there remains some kind of disconnect between willingness and actual action. in the field. Therefore, striving for gender equality in AI leadership is requisite to responsible and inclusive AI development.
This article originally appeared in IT Pro
