South Africa, Aug. 31 -- AI isn't simply another workplace technology; it is increasingly influencing how we recruit, create, communicate, analyse information and make decisions. In the creative industry, it is already changing workflows and creating entirely new roles and capabilities.

That makes women's participation in AI much bigger than a diversity conversation. It's a design decision.

Technology reflects the people, information and assumptions behind it. If women are underrepresented in the team's developing AI, implementing it and deciding how it should be used, their experiences are less likely to influence the systems that increasingly shape our working lives.

Women remain underrepresented. The World Economic Forum has consist...