Building With Care: AI Ethics

​Before you ship your next big idea, let’s talk about who it helps—and who it might accidentally leave behind.

​Join us for an interactive AI Ethics Work Session inspired by the 2025 CreateHER Fest AI Ethics workshop led by Nicole Jackson, and co-designed for this year’s #75HER Challenge with Camille Catania. Together, we’ll pause at key moments in Nicole’s talk to unpack how bias sneaks into AI systems, how it impacts women and other marginalized communities, and what responsible AI development looks like in practice for #75HER builders.

​This is not a lecture. This is a conversation with real hands-work: cameras-optional, conversational, and focused on real stories and lived experience. We’ll use the chat, quick polls, and a collaborative whiteboard to:

• ​Explore real-world examples like medical AI disparities, facial recognition bias, language and cultural bias, and AI agents that can go off the rails.

• ​Ask who is treated as the “default user” in common AI systems—and who gets erased or harmed.

• ​Practice spotting risky assumptions in early ideas, even if you don’t have a full project yet.

​You’ll leave with a one-page Ethical Considerations Checklist, created for #75HER participants, that you can reuse during the hackathon (and for other projects) to:

• ​Clarify who your project is for (and who might be excluded).

• ​Capture potential biases and data gaps in plain language.

• ​Write simple limitation and “human-in-the-loop” statements you can drop into your README or pitch deck.

​This watch party is designed to bridge the Learn-a-thon and Hackathon phases so you walk into building with more than just tools—you walk in with a clearer ethical lens, language you can actually use with teammates, mentors, and judges, and a shared foundation shaped by Nicole Jackson’s insights and Camille Catania’s facilitation design.