The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny is the latest book from Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.
Drawing on years of research into gender-based violence, deep dives into forums, and interviews with victims of AI-assisted abuse, the book explores how new technology is turbocharging misogyny across seven sobering chapters. It’s an alarming picture of how AI amplifies and entrenches existing attitudes and harms, with devastating consequences for women and girls.
This technological and societal shift is particularly dangerous for sex workers. Many of the emerging technologies explored in The New Age of Sexism have the potential to increase sex workers’ experiences of discrimination, policing and violence. Unfortunately, the book largely fails to make those connections explicit for the reader.
