S7_ Ep 5: What every survivor & advocate should know about Artificial Intelligence

About this episode

This episode discusses the implications of Artificial Intelligence for domestic violence survivors and advocates.

Policy Advocacy: Part 4: What every domestic violence survivor & advocate should know about Artificial Intelligence. In our fourth Policy Matters presentation, we interview Adam Dodge, founder of EndTAB.org, about what every survivor and advocate should know about Artificial Intelligence. This episode was curated by the Maitri Policy Advocacy Program and facilitated by Smitha Chandrasekhar, a Maitri volunteer who is deeply invested in promoting the rights of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to their own bodies and autonomy.The United Nations Program for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, reported in November 2025 that approximately 16 to 58 percent of women worldwide are impacted by technology-facilitated violence, an issue only being amplified by the onset of AI-powered online abuse. AI and large language models that have been trained on content containing gender stereotypes and are now integrated into many everyday platforms, such as X’s Grok AI or Meta AI. These platforms are now being used to further propagate the spread of gender based abuse in an even more violent and widespread manner than before.Since the boom of…

People in this episode

Guest: Adam Dodge

Topics covered

• Artificial Intelligence
• domestic violence
• policy advocacy
• gender equality

Keywords

• technology-facilitated violence
• AI-powered online abuse
• gender stereotypes

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Grok AI, Meta AI, ChatGPT

Books & works: JD

Places: Maitri, California

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