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The AI Gender Gap: Can AI help Women make better decisions?

March 05, 2025 • Efi Pylarinou

In this interview with spatial computing expert Cortney Harding, we explore the concerning AI gender gap and how women can leverage artificial intelligence to make better-informed career and caregiving decisions.
Women are using AI significantly less than men, creating a potential disadvantage as these technologies reshape our future. Cortney explains how AI can provide unbiased financial information to help women make fully informed choices about staying in or leaving the workforce for caregiving responsibilities.

Cortney Harding https://www.linkedin.com/in/cortneyharding/ is an in-demand expert in helping businesses harness the power of artificial intelligence, spatial computing, and virtual reality. She has created AI-powered conversational avatars for companies like Amazon, Delta, and McDonalds, and virtual reality training scenarios around topics like child abuse, workplace exclusion, mental health, Black maternal mortality, and racial bias for companies like Lowe’s, Walmart, PWC, Target, and more. She routinely leads workshops for Fortune 100 companies and universities on how to use AI and VR in education and training.

Her work has been honored on numerous occasions. As an executive producer on JFK Memento, she was nominated for an Emmy and the piece won the audience award for best XR at SXSW and Best in the World at the QLD XR Festival. Her work has also been honored as the Best VR/AR of 2019 at Mobile World Congress, a SXSW Innovation Award Finalist, and a Top HR Product by HR Executive.

She is currently a member of the Fast Future Executive faculty and a co-author of the "Fast Future Blur" (Wiley, 2024). She has taught at CalTech, NYU, Barnard, North Carolina State University, and New Mexico State University, as well as co-writing and co-teaching the Coursera course "What is the Metaverse?" on behalf of Meta.

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