How AI Is Failing Women (And How to Fix It Now) | Miri Rodriguez CEO Empressa.ai

🎙️Unlock the future of Inclusive AI: What does it truly take to build systems that are responsible and equitable from the ground up?

In this essential episode on Gender Bias in AI and Responsible AI, we sit down with Miri Rodriguez, former star storyteller at Microsoft and the groundbreaking CEO/Founder of Empressa.ai.

After 13 years crafting narratives within Big Tech, a personal health journey — including battling cancer —pushed Miri to pioneer a solution for one of technology's biggest challenges: the AI gender gap.

Miri shares the emotional and strategic story behind Empressa — a pioneering AI platform built by women, for women. She exposes how reliance on traditional data sets has created deep-seated biases, consistently excluding female perspectives.

You'll learn:
Why the legacy of male-designed technology (like the car airbag) proves that gender-neutral is often just male-default.
How Empressa.ai is rewriting this reality by implementing a royalty model that fairly compensates women for contributing their insights, stories, and lived experience, transforming silence into scalable knowledge.
Actionable design principles for building inclusive AI agents and foundational models, ensuring your next product is equitable.
Why the true barrier for women in tech and AI adoption is often confidence and the need for safe learning spaces—not capability.

If you are building with Generative AI, leading product teams, or focused on accelerating gender parity in the workforce, this episode is mandatory listening. It will fundamentally challenge how you think about data, inclusion, and the systems we are all shaping.

⏱️ Timestamps (YouTube Chapters)
00:00 Intro
01:37 Meet Miri Rodriguez: Microsoft, Storytelling, and the Strategic Leap
06:42 Why AI Systems Are Biased Against Women
09:08 The Hidden Cost of Biased Data
12:15 The Legacy of Male-Designed Tech (Cars & Airbags)
14:48 How Empressa is Building AI with Women's Insights
19:36 A New Royalty Model for AI Contributors
22:05 Designing an Equitable AI: "By Women, For Women"
25:11 The Domestic Workload Barrier (Why Women Don't Apply)
25:45 Cohorts, Safe Spaces, and How Women Learn AI
29:03 Building Inclusive AI Agents
37:45 Practical Tip: Training AI for the Next Generation
39:15 The Road to Gender Parity and AI's Role

📌 Resources Mentioned
Empressa.ai : https://empressa.ai
Miri Rodriguez on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mirirod/
Women in AI Quaterly Index Report: https://empressa.ai/wp-content/upload...

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