UNESCO, for example, is advocating for a humanistic approach to AI that would ensure that AI contributes to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and of human rights frameworks. Others are asking for the decolonization of AI6, arguing that AI has become a tool of digital colonialism, whereby ‘poorer countries are overwhelmed by readily available services and technology, and cannot develop their own industries and products that compete with Western corporations’.7 Others still are calling for a use of AI that protects data rights and sovereignty, expands collective as well as individual choices, dismantles patriarchy, the neo-liberal order and late stage/extractive capitalism, and promotes human flourishing over relentless economic growth.8 Gender equality is necessary for the realization of any and all of the goals above, as well as being an objective in and of itself. It thus needs to be mainstreamed and considered at the highest level of outcomes and societal imperatives