A reflection in preparation for the EoF International Women’s Day Webinar

Today, women are finally being recognized as full bearers of intelligence. Yet a paradox emerges. At the very moment when this recognition grows, the very idea of intelligence is being redefined and increasingly delegated to machines. If intelligence becomes synonymous with calculation, prediction, and optimization — functions now largely entrusted to artificial intelligence — what does it mean to be acknowledged as an intelligent person? Furthermore, what happens to experience, conscience, and responsibility?

This webinar will explore this cultural and economic tension, asking what we truly value when we speak of “human intelligence” and who risks becoming invisible once again.

In the contemporary context, artificial intelligence can suggest the optimal way to do almost anything. However, it cannot tell us whether something is worth doing, who might be harmed, or what kind of world we are shaping in the process of optimization. These questions require judgment. And judgment is not an algorithmic output; rather, it is the fruit of a fully lived life, shaped through experience, care, relationships, and the capacity to hold complexity and consequences together.

What does it mean, then, to design an economy capable of recognizing the intelligence of a fully lived life? An economy that counts what has long gone uncounted, that values what has been systematically extracted without recognition or compensation?

This is not only a welfare question. It is also a design question — about the architecture of our economic systems and the vision of humanity embedded within them. Ultimately, it is about what kind of economy we are building, and for whom.

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