Invited experts

Alexi Mostrous

Investigations Editor

Laura Bates

Join us in the newsroom with Laura Bates, Sunday Times bestselling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, to discuss her new book, The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny. In conversation with Alexi Mostrous, Tortoise's Head of Investigations and host of award-winning Sweet Bobby and Who Trolled Amber, Laura will take us deep into a strange but very real new world of pornographic deepfakes, AI girlfriends, cyber brothels and schools gripped by an epidemic of online sexual abuse. She'll expose the extent to which our lives - from education to work, sex and entertainment - are being infiltrated by ever-evolving technologies that are changing the way we live and love forever. With a new wave of AI-powered technologies with misogyny baked into their design putting women everywhere in danger, we'll ask: how can we ensure women's rights and safety aren't sacrificed for the sake of technological 'progress' or profitability?