By Diana L. Banister, C-Fam
UN Women announced in September plans to build a new global Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that will shape digital information and “embed gender equality principles” into the new technology.
UN Women claims current AI platforms use biased information and discriminatory algorithms, so the massive UN agency for women is gathering researchers, governments, technology companies, digital experts and women’s rights organizations to establish an AI hub that will influence, design and govern technology.
“AI can deepen gender inequality or help overcome it,” said Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, in a statement announcing the plan. “At UNGA81, UN Women’s message is clear: equality is not only about representation. It is also about power. AI is already helping to reshape economic, social and political power.”
Funded in large part by left-wing European countries, UN Women has been working to gain political power since it was established in 2010 as “The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.” Now the organization advocates for the LGBTQ agenda, reproductive rights, and climate change ideology.
Last year, the U.S. refused to endorse a UN Women’s four-year strategic plan because it promoted gender ideology and abortion in an attempt to eradicate biological reality and sex with references to “sexual orientation and gender identity,” “sexual and reproductive health and rights,” and “intersectionality.”
Civil society organizations are concerned that UN Women’s new AI hub will insert this same language and agenda into search terms and information received by consumers utilizing the technology and that its “governance” of AI will eliminate or scrutinize countering views.