AI for Equity
Creating a More Equitable Society for All
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AI for Equity explores how Artificial Intelligence can be harnessed to dismantle systemic inequities and build a fairer society. Drawing on global expert insights and the dynamic conversations from the AI for Equity podcast, authors Jenny Garrett OBE and Leah-Sunshine Garrett offer a compelling roadmap for using AI to address challenges in areas such as gender-based violence, neurodiversity, recruitment, healthcare, and socio-economic inclusion. With a unique intergenerational lens, this book blends wisdom and innovation to illuminate how ethical AI can drive meaningful social change.
More than just theory, this book delivers actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and thought-provoking questions designed to empower leaders, technologists, and changemakers. Whether you're in the C-suite, a community organiser, or a curious reader passionate about equity, AI for Equity provides the tools and language to influence the future of AI responsibly. It’s a timely call to ensure that as AI evolves, it does so with fairness, inclusion, and humanity at its core.
Chapter 1. The Dawn of Equitable AI: Why This Book Exists and What It Asks of You
- Chapter 2. The Mirror of Bias: How AI Reflects and Amplifies Inequity
- Chapter 3. Understanding the AI Landscape: Power, Promise, and Peril
- Chapter 4. Designing for Fairness: Principles and Frameworks for Ethical AI
- Chapter 5. AI as a Shield: Combating Gender-Based Violence
- Chapter 6. AI for Inclusive Talent: Fairer Recruitment and Career Pathways
- Chapter 7. AI and Neurodiversity: Enhancing Work and Learning
- Chapter 8. Bridging the Health Divide: AI for Equitable Healthcare Access
- Chapter 9. Empowering Communities: AI for Social and Economic Development
- Chapter 10. Dismantling Socio-Economic Barriers with AI: Access, Redistribution, and the Difference Between Them
- Chapter 11. The Human-AI Partnership: Leadership, Accountability, and Collaboration
- Chapter 12. Building the Future of Equitable AI - A Call to Action: Curiosity, Creativity, and the Human Operating System
- Chapter 13. Conclusion: Twelve Voices, Seven Commitments, One Choice
Most books about AI ask you to think differently. This one asks you to act. The most radical thing it does is also the simplest: it listens to practitioners, communities, and people whose knowledge has been sitting outside the room where AI decisions get made. Jenny and Leah-Sunshine Garrett have written the book the field has been waiting for without knowing it.
Most AI strategy conversations stop at capability and skip the harder question: whose interests does the system serve, and what governance exists to ensure it? This book does not skip it. Twelve practitioners across four continents, grounded in real work, making the case that equitable AI is a design problem, not a technology problem. The EQUITAS framework gives leaders somewhere concrete to start.
AI for Equity is, simply put, a seminal work. Leah-Sunshine's aptitude for systemic pattern recognition maps out the interconnectivity across the continuum of domestic violence and abuse against women and girls, unapologetically refusing to treat instances as isolated incidents. Meanwhile, Jenny, with the meticulousness of a literary detective, drills down into the core of design, adoption, and deployment concerns with a rare precision that is a privilege to observe. Both have a wonderful, collaborative way of not catastrophising but championing - not just mitigation techniques - but actual, practical, grounded, and genuinely positive solutions. I could not recommend this book more highly.
Jenny Garrett OBE is founder and CEO of Jenny Garrett Global, an award-winning leadership development consultancy supporting organisations worldwide since 2006.
Leah-Sunshine Garrett is the founder and technical director of Dawn Intelligence, an advisory institutional intelligence platform for the public sector.