Check Your Default Settings
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Check Your Default Settings

Technology is still a baby. And not a chill one. Most of what we are calling the future is still running on V1 logic: trained on lopsided data, coded by a few overconfident engineers, and launched at scale without much reflection. Systems do not fix themselves. They just keep reinforcing what they were built to believe -- unless someone steps in and changes the defaults. That is us.

From hidden permissions to algorithmic bias baked into the tools you use every day -- most systems are profit-first, extraction-based, and allergic to nuance. Check out why I continue to build Business 4 Good, what I have learned helping women-led businesses actually use AI, and how to change the settings that were never designed for us as women or for that matter, for all to thrive!

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Training the Bots to Be Better
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Training the Bots to Be Better

The internet as we know it is not broken. It just was not built for everyone. AI is being built right now, and if we do not actively shape its foundation with inclusion and ethics in mind, we risk a future where the digital patriarchy goes viral. No, thanks.

AI is being built right now. If diverse voices are not at the table during development, the same broken systems of bias and exclusion we have spent decades fighting in the analogue world will go digital and viral. Rose Kaz on why she built Business 4 Good, why the BIPOC funding gap is an AI problem, and what #Tequity does about it.

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What Is More Offensive: F-Bombs or Genocide?
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What Is More Offensive: F-Bombs or Genocide?

I have gotten the feedback that I "sure do curse a lot." That I "make great points but do I need to drop the f-bomb so much?" And my very favorite: "You are so pretty. Ladies like you do not swear!" Being the salacious sinner that I am, I thought: Well, f*ck. Let's talk about what actually deserves our outrage.

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