Eng, Meriggi: “Tecnologia e IA aiuteranno le donne ad affermarsi”
(Adnkronos) - “I miei genitori pensavano che lo studio della matematica mi avrebbe portato a fare solo la professoressa. Oggi non è più così e le ragazze non sono sole, ma possono contare su una comunità di donne sempre più grande”. Lo ha dichiarato Francesca Meriggi, Group Chief Information Officer di Eng, nel corso di Stem Women Congress, evento per la prima volta organizzato a Milano e finalizzato a dare visibilità e risonanza alle donne specializzate in materie STEM
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00:00The idea of having the role model of people who live close to them, concrete, with whom they can interact,
00:12and who have actually managed to undertake successful paths within technology,
00:18as well as having a clearer idea of the numbers, they can see that this is a concrete and pervasive phenomenon.
00:25The important thing, in my opinion, also for a girl who has to make a choice about her future,
00:29is to know that she is not alone in this type of decision, and can count on a community that becomes bigger and bigger every day.
00:35It is fundamental, after the advent of AI and the AI gene, that there is an important female presence in the world of technology,
00:41precisely to avoid that there are unconscious biases within the models that we will then use,
00:47and that will most likely affect many aspects of our lives.
00:52So even more, perhaps, girls can see the impact, also on a social and cultural level,
00:58of what their contribution to this type of technology can be.
01:02To give an example of a case, if we want to say of success,
01:06in which a path, indeed, if it is also quite theoretical,
01:10has clearly managed to create a path of a career of value.
01:14My parents, in fact, unconsciously wanted me to pursue a different career.
01:22They have always been in support of me when I decided,
01:25but it was part of what was popular culture at that time,
01:30the fact that an area of mathematics would have led me only to become a teacher.
01:34But this, fortunately, is no longer the case, I would say.