What are three habits that can make everyone safer online today?




 Our digital experts recommend the following actions: 

  1. Educate – yourself and others about digital literacy, source skepticism, and the realities of AI-facilitated abuse. Understanding how these tools work and their gendered impact is the first step toward meaningful change.
  2. Stay safe – Use strong and unique passwords, turn on two-factor authentication in all your accounts, use private profiles and periodically check your privacy settings on all social media platforms and apps to protect your personal information. For more tips on how to spot signs of online abuse, read Online Safety 101. 
  3. Take action – Demand accountability from tech platforms and companies creating and profiting from AI tools. And follow and support feminist-led campaigns working on the issue. Amplify their content, sign their petitions, or contact your legal representative to show how much this matters to you. 

“The key is to move toward accountability and regulation – creating systems where AI tools must meet safety and ethics standards before being rolled out to the public, where platforms are held accountable for the content they host, and where the responsibility for prevention shifts from potential victims to those creating and profiting from harmful technologies”, concludes Bates. 

For those wondering if regulations and governance of AI would make it less innovative, Gálvez-Callirgos has a different take: “The dichotomy of ‘regulation or innovation’ is a falsehood learned from the unregulated evolution of social media over the past decade”, she says.

AI governance doesn’t mean prohibiting invention, but rather putting in place safeguards that channel innovation toward outcomes that are beneficial to the whole society, she concludes.

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