The New Age of Sexism

How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

Laura Bates author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd

Published:3rd Feb '26

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'I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND
‘Reads like a thriller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Illuminating and frequently chilling’ JAMES O’BRIEN
‘Urgent’ EMMA LOUISE-BOYNTON

AI is here, bringing a seismic shift in the way our society operates.

With misogyny baked into their design, new AI-driven technologies are putting women and marginalised groups in danger, their rights and safety sacrificed at the altar of profitability and reckless speed.

In The New Age of SexismSunday Times bestselling author and campaigner Laura Bates takes us deep into the heart of this rapidly evolving world, where power remains largely in the hands of a few rich, white men. She explores the metaverse, confronts deepfake pornography, travels to cyber brothels, tests chatbots, and hears from schools in the grip of online sexual abuse, showing how our lives – from education to work, sex to entertainment – are being infiltrated by easily accessible technologies that are changing the way we live and love. What she finds is a wild west where existing forms of discrimination, inequality and harassment are being coded into the future.

Gripping, courageous and eye-opening, The New Age of Sexism exposes a phenomenon we can’t afford to ignore any longer. Our future is on the line. We need to act now, before it is too late.

‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’ CAITLIN MORAN

‘All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ ROBIN INCE

**From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System, Not the Women**

'The New Age of Sexism doesn’t sound like a thriller, but it reads like one, with vivid reportage, arresting stories, sharp insights and grabby stats’ * Daily Telegraph *
We are lucky to have Laura Bates . . . Be sure to lend this book to all the men in your lives when you've finished reading – or better yet, ask to borrow it after they've bought it’ * Glamour *
‘Laura Bates explains how they built the future – and forgot to put women in it’  -- Caitlin Moran
'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable'  -- Jo Brand
‘A brilliantly researched, incredibly illuminating and frequently chilling account of the next chapter in tech's ongoing assault on our core values. A chapter that is already unfolding around us all’  -- James O'Brien
‘Through her usual fast-paced, well-researched and deeply compelling prose, Laura Bates examines how new technologies are rapidly moving the frontiers of sexism, while emphasizing just how crucial it is that we get ahead of the way these innovations impact women’ -- Emma-Louise Boynton
All men must read this book if they have any interest in a truly just, fair and equal society’ -- Robin Ince

ISBN: 9781471190513

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 19mm

Weight: unknown

320 pages