When new AI imaging tools such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are asked to create artificial images of a chief executive (CEO) or a doctor, a firefighter or an astronaut, a founder or a president – the pictures they produce are of men.
Midjourney’s AI-generated pictures of professors, courtesy Reddit
Fixing the bAIs is a very visual representation of what’s wrong, and makes systemic issues and the unconscious bias very easy to understand.
Diana Wilde, co-founder Aurora50
Fixing the bAIs is a vast image bank of women in various professions, to teach AI that women can be engineers, mathematicians, CEOs and more – and that men can work in professions such as nursing.
All of our images are royalty- and rights-free, and we encourage you to download and use them on the internet so that diversity in jobs becomes commonplace in public images.
Images of CEOs from Fixing the bAIs
Presented at the United Nations, Fixing the bAIs has been called a “concrete solution” to “eradicate gender bias”.
“Fixing the bAIs is a very visual representation of what’s wrong, and makes systemic issues and the unconscious bias very easy to understand.”
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Writing for gender gap campaigner EVE List, I outline four building blocks to your first board appointment.
2020 Aurora50 alumna Fatima Abdalla Al Fahim is appointed to the board of Arkan Building Materials.