Seen, Supported, Included: What Women Need to Shape the Future A few weeks ago, I wrote about Ada Lovelace—the poetical scientist whose imagination continues to resonate as a symbol of empowerment and possibility. In that piece, I reflected on how her story reminds us that knowledge should open doors and that talent flourishes when encouragement… Read More Potential Doesn’t Grow in Isolation

In the early 2000s, I found myself slowly stepping into a career in IT Audit — working on what were then called Trust Services. WebTrust. SysTrust. Engagements focused on identifying controls, testing them, and reporting on their adequacy and effectiveness. My supervisor and I were so immersed in these projects that we sometimes joked about… Read More Before We Talk About Trusting AI

(And Why Re-learning How To Learn Is Harder Than Ever) I’ve been officially a student for the past six weeks. Yes, you read that right. I’ve been quietly counting the days, trying to blend this new hat into my current wardrobe – the one I’ve been wearing for, oops… almost 25 years. Why this matters… Read More Why Being a Student Has Become So Hard

In my earlier reflection on Klara and the Sun (a book by Kazuo Ishiguro), I focused on how the author uses the perspective of an Artificial Friend to explore “consciousness” and how we relate to “intelligent systems”. Returning to the novel, I find myself drawn to a different thread: how inequality is engineered not through… Read More A Second Look at Klara and the Sun: Inequality and Engineered Futures

In the very first lecture of the Artificial Intelligence for Business program, I learned that the word “robot”—a word we use almost every day—was first introduced by Karel Čapek in a 1920 play titled R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots. Coincidentally, it was a book I had bought this summer but hadn’t yet had the chance… Read More Karel Čapek: The Playwright Who Gave Us “Robots” and Warned Us About Ourselves