Why Women's Voices Are Missing From AI (And What It Costs Us All) - with Luli Adeyemo

The question we all need to ask all the time is: who's missing? Whose voice is not currently represented? AI is reshaping the world. And while the headlines swing between hype and fear, most women are asking just one question: What does this mean for me? This episode is about what happens when AI makes decisions about people's lives and nobody can explain why. It's about accountability. It's about bias. And it's about governance, not as a handbrake, but as the thing that lets us move faster, safely. In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Luli Adeyemo, Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation, award winning leader with over 30 years in tech, and former BMX world champion. Luli has spent her career asking one question: who's in the room when decisions get made? And right now, when it comes to AI governance, women's voices are dangerously underrepresented. That's not just unfair. It's risky. And it's costing us all. This is the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet. ____________ ✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨ Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves ____________ 📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com ____________ Connect with Georgie: 🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/ 🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard ♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com ____________ Connect with Lou Compagnone: 🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/ ____________ Connect with Luli Adeyemo: 🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luliadeyemo/ ♦️ Tech Diversity Foundation: https://techdiversity.org ⭕️ AI Governance Practitioner Course: https://techdiversity.org/ai-governance ____________ CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome to AI Ready Women — today's focus: AI governance and why women's voices matter 2:15 Meet Luli Adeyemo — BMX world champion, tech leader, and Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation 5:30 From BMX Bandits to tech: Luli's career journey and why being different became her superpower 12:30 Why diversity in AI is different: the scale, the impact, and the risk are at a level we've never seen before 16:00 The football analogy: why we get diversity in sport but not in business 19:30 The pipeline problem: why women can't thrive in tech if the culture isn't set up for them 23:00 The identity crisis: why people outside tech don't see themselves in it, and why that's our industry's fault 27:00 The Apple Card scandal: gender discrimination wasn't the intent, but it was the outcome 30:00 The dermatology AI tool that couldn't detect melanoma on darker skin. Who's responsible when the algorithm fails? 39:00 The Stanford Agents of Chaos paper: autonomous AI that lied, destroyed systems, and leaked data 42:00 The Alibaba AI that created its own hidden communication channel and started mining cryptocurrency 52:00 Final advice for women who are AI fearful: you don't need to code. You need to understand the questions to ask.