Aug 2020

Bartoletti is a privacy and ethics consultant with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence. She is also the co-founder of the Women Leading in AI Network. A well-known and engaging public speaker and commentator in the world of data and privacy, this is the first book Bartoletti has published.

The energy she exudes on the speaking platform also fills every page, often bubbling up as a dignified but palpable anger at the injustices and inequalities she sees as pervasive in our modern technology driven world. Undeniably an expert in the technology she so clinically analyses, Bartoletti also brings a powerful humanity to her analysis; talking about how technology continues to transform our lives in ways that leave many of us feeling powerless and excluded.

This book is not an excoriation of technology, but rather an impassioned plea for a reimagination of how technology and AI can be used to benefit us all. At a time when the world is so alive to some of the prejudices faced by certain groups and individuals, this is a timely exposure of the part that data and AI plays when looking at all types of inequalities and injustices across the globe. We can either wring our hands in despair in the face of these enormous challenges, or we can try to do something about it. Reading this book reminds us that we can, and must, do the latter. “Amid the global turmoil, maybe, just maybe, the promise of the Artificial will force us to confront our shared humanity and the physical and digital environments we inhabit. For many of us, disappointed yet optimistic, this is the time to dare to imagine.”