Who Gets Rewarded in the AI Economy? With Isvari Maranwe from YuVoice [094]

Social media has become exceptionally good at rewarding attention and dangerously poor at rewarding social value. This episode explores a different model: using AI to amplify credible voices, strengthen communities and direct recognition toward people creating real-world impact. The business opportunity is bigger than building another platform. It is about redesigning the incentives behind digital participation, citizen journalism and online trust.A physicist, lawyer, AI consultant and startup founder, Isvari draws on experience across cybersecurity, data privacy, media and nonprofit work. She also challenges the narrow image of who gets to lead technology companies, describing pressure to install a white male figurehead to improve fundraising prospects. Her message to women and ethnic-minority founders is to enter negotiations with confidence, demand fair value and refuse to internalise other people’s assumptions. But ambition must be matched by restraint: AI can expand human capability, yet without ethical deployment, accountability and limits on concentrated power, the same technology could deepen inequality and create systemic risk.AI is our Business.UKAI is the Trade Association for AI businesses across the UK. Join us, ukai.co