International Center for Journalists
AI Ready: From Targets to Technical Leaders
Our solution builds AI fluency through safety applications - women gain technical skills by using AI tools to protect themselves and their colleagues.
Safety and AI skills are typically treated as separate problems. They're not - and that disconnect helps explain why the adoption gap persists. Online violence drives women from visibility; retreat blocks the fluency that advancement now demands. For journalists - whose work requires the public visibility that makes them targets - retreat also silences voices that hold power to account. Our approach connects them: AI skills built through safety applications. Women become architects of the technology, not its targets.
Primary Barrier
Low AI adoption rates
Location
District of Columbia
Solution Region
Nation-wide
Community Type
Urban
