Who Builds the Future? Women, AI, and Digital Justice

Equate Scotland screens CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap at CodeBase, then runs a discussion that takes the film's argument into current AI practice. The award-winning documentary examines why women remain underrepresented in computer science and technology — stereotypes, educational barriers, workplace culture, missing role models, sexism. The discussion afterwards connects that to the UK AI workforce, where women are notably scarce in technical, research and senior roles, and to AI-enabled harms that fall disproportionately on women and girls: deepfakes, sexualised generated content, impersonation, harassment, surveillance. Equate Scotland will draw on its in-progress pilot study, Women shaping AI in Scotland. Free, 18:00 to 20:30. Why go: the pairing is what makes it work — a film that explains how the pipeline narrowed, then Scottish data on what that costs now that the same teams are designing AI systems. Best for people building or governing AI products, and for anyone running hiring or inclusion in a technical organisation.