#CreatingWomensSpaces... making spaces for the conversations women want to have!

14:00-16:30 I Free Creche I Women-only I Brighton & Hove 

AI - what does it mean for women?

Can AI tools like Claude, Chat GPT or Gemini help us to solve problems faster, skip over tedious tasks and free up our minds for more interesting thoughts? Are they a useful sounding board to help women handle the mental load? Or do they represent a threat to the future of humanity?

AI is all over the news, with extreme claims being made in all directions. Join us this November for a discussion of what AI means for women. We'll be thinking about questions like:

• What is AI, anyway? What do large language models do and is it accurate to call them a form of intelligence?
• Have we found AI tools useful in our lives? Do they make specialist knowledge more accessible, and can that help to empower women against the scourge of mansplaining? 
• Can AI chatbots help us clarify our thoughts? Or is using AI making us less able to think for ourselves?
• What is the ELIZA effect, and how does it relate to 'AI psychosis'? Are we all vulnerable to having our perceptions distorted if we interact with AI companions? What impact is this kind of AI 'relationship' having on young people's ability to form human relationships?
• Why are AI companies warning that AI could be a danger to the human race? Are the men who control AI companies motivated by envy of women's ability to create life?
• What's the relationship between AI billionaires and the Trump government? Will autonomous AI weapons remove human accountability for genocide?
• Are AI data centres competing with human communities for energy, land and water?

Listen, speak and share in our new format

This month the Salon will have a range of smaller circles looking at different aspects of our topic. You will be free to move between the circles and we hope women will have more opportunity to speak and listen in this new format.

Come along and share your perspectives, hear the perspectives of others and join our growing community.

About us...

On the THIRD SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH Brighton Women's Liberation Collective invite women* to join us in our woman-only space to share their experiences and insights. Each woman is equal. Every woman is welcome to speak and listen. Yes, we have cake.

Sisters Salon is run and organised by Brighton Women's Liberation Collective. We are a feminist collective that hold women-only and women-centred spaces and run feminist campaigns to improve the lives of women and girls in our city. Salons are spaces for women to discuss their experiences and perspectives as well as discuss feminist ideas around them. You do not have to self describe as a feminist to come, and diversity of thought is encouraged. At our Salons we aim to build relationships, communities, understanding of our lives and steps we can take to improve them. Everyone is welcome.

Tickets are free, but please donate to help us cover the costs of the venue, the cost of the crèche & teas & coffees. Only donate if you can comfortably afford to do so. There is a card reader at the meeting too.

Our crèche is FREE! Please book by midnight on the Wednesday before the Salon so we can plan the play space. Do let us know of any additional needs they have. If a crèche environment is not appropriate for your child, we will happily pay their regular care worker to have them for the duration to enable you to join us.

If you need help with travel costs please get in touch.

*We have a single-sex policy. Strictly only women registered female at birth. Women registered female at birth who express a trans or non-binary identity are welcome and attend. If you were registered male at birth we are happy to signpost you to a variety of similar groups (scroll down)

**This means that sometimes women (registered female at birth) attend who present as male. We recognise that this can be unexpected! We would like to reassure you that our spaces are strictly male-free and women-only. 

To learn more about our group and our campaigns visit our website and follow us on social media. Please read our policies and mythbusters. If you want to create spaces for women please download our activist pack that tells you everything you need to know.

Our rules...

Many of our topics can trigger disclosures of sexual & domestic abuse. Women often talk about difficult and personal issues. We hold this space to enable women to do this. Many have no other space in their lives dedicated to reflection in this way. To enable women to feel safe, centred and empowered to do this, all attendees enter into our community pledge; confidentiality, self-organisation, trust, respect and sisterhood.

Signposting...

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