Heather Hurlburt - an associate fellow at Chatham House, specialising in AI and its use in tech - agrees that AI "has enormous potential either to help identify and redress gender discrimination and gender-based violence, or to entrench misogyny and inequity", but adds which way we go is "very much up to us".

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