We are on a mission to make AI and new technologies safe by design. No one should feel unsafe offline, or online.
Meet our founders, Rosie and Laura
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Rosie brings legislative insight and a unique window into the workings of Parliament. While being in the House of Lords is no guarantee that ideas will become law, it is a powerful platform for convening experts, elevating evidence, and advocating for meaningful change. Rosie uses this space to champion food sustainability and green legislation, and now, the urgent need for stronger protections against AI-enabled harms, especially those affecting women and girls.
Alongside her parliamentary work, Rosie has had an extraordinary and influential career in journalism. She co-founded the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib at just 21, and went on to become the first woman to edit a national broadsheet newspaper in the UK. Her decades of leadership across media, public life, and social justice underpin her commitment to ensuring that innovation advances equality, not misogyny.
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Laura Bates is an activist, author, and leading expert on violence against women and girls. As the founder of the internationally renowned Everyday Sexism Project, she has spent over a decade exposing the systemic inequalities and misogyny embedded in our culture, influencing policy, education, and public understanding across the UK and globally.
Laura is the spark that led to the creation of the Misogyny & AI Network. Although she and Rosie have been friends for many years, it was Laura’s recent publication, The New Age of Sexism, which examines how emerging technologies encode bias and misogyny, that catalysed the formation of the network. Her work illuminated the urgent need for coordinated action to address AI-driven harms, particularly those impacting women, girls, and marginalised groups.
Through her writing, advocacy, and extensive expertise, Laura brings a vital focus on equality, safety, and human rights — ensuring that as AI reshapes our world, it does not entrench the very inequalities she has spent her career challenging.
The Team…
Sofia Havsteen-Franklin Campaign coordinator
Jeea Chadha Campaign coordinator
a note from rosie.
a note from rosie.
Dear all,
My name is Rosie Boycott, and I have been a member of the House of Lords since 2018. More than 50 years ago, I co-founded Spare Rib, a feminist magazine, yet I was still shocked to the core when I read Laura Bate’s book and realised the true extent to which misogyny is flourishing online. I had thought of myself as reasonably well-informed, having spent decades engaged in the feminist movement, but the scale of the problem, revealed to me by Laura's extensive research and activism, and its devastating impact on women, particularly young girls and minority groups, was deeply distressing.
I don’t pretend to have the answers, but I know that we have an extraordinary network of people doing remarkable work. This network grew out of two roundtable lunches held with Laura in Westminster. Our aim is to connect and support NGOs, parliamentarians, and leaders in this field, and to amplify the work that is already being done.
We would very much like to hear from you. Together, we can face this challenge with the determination and solidarity it demands.
What we do
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Connect
Our primary aim as a network is to connect those already working in this areas. Whether that be parliamentarians, experts, activists, or civil society. We hope that by shining a spotlight on work being done, we can amplify voices and accelerate action.
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Convene
We bring people together to share ideas, stories and expertise.
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Influence
We want to see concrete change. Whether this be through education, legislation, regulation, or within tech companies themselves, we are demanding that technologies are safe by design. We support our network in their efforts, and take action ourselves to help make this a reality.
See our briefings and efforts below.
Supporting our mission…
