Draft text outlines measures governments should take to boost gender equality in artificial intelligence R&D
EU ministers responsible for labour and social policy are set to call on the bloc’s member states to do more to tackle gender inequality in artificial intelligence research, including by improving working conditions and how the tech is used.
A draft Council of the EU text on the topic calls on member states to “strive for greater awareness of gender equality issues in the AI sectors and to enhance efforts by all relevant actors to take a multidisciplinary approach to AI research”. It also wants them to “enhance their efforts to achieve a balanced representation of women and men in occupations related to the creation and deployment of AI tools and in AI research”.