A new book by Jenny Garrett OBE and Leah-Sunshine Garrett examines how artificial intelligence could help tackle inequality in recruitment, healthcare, education and public life.
Published by Emerald Publishing Limited on 27th October 2026, AI for Equity: Creating a More Equitable Society for All brings an intergenerational perspective to questions about who benefits from AI and how the technology should be used.
The book draws on insights from global experts and conversations from the AI for Equity podcast. It explores how AI could help address challenges including gender-based violence, neurodiversity and socio-economic exclusion, while keeping fairness and human judgement central to its use.
For employers, its focus on recruitment and inclusion comes amid wider questions about how technology influences access to work and opportunities to progress. The authors examine how leaders and technologists can approach AI deliberately, with attention to the people affected by their decisions.
Alongside discussion of the technology’s potential, the book includes practical strategies, case studies and questions designed to help readers consider how AI could be used within their own organisations and communities. It is aimed at business leaders, technologists, community organisers and readers interested in equity.
Two generations, different perspectives
Jenny Garrett OBE is a leadership consultant, coach and author whose work focuses on inclusive leadership, gender balance and equity. She founded Jenny Garrett Global in 2006 and is the author of Equality vs Equity and Rocking Your Role.
Leah-Sunshine Garrett is the founder and technical director of Dawn Intelligence, an advisory institutional intelligence platform for the public sector. Her work involves developing tools to identify patterns in violence, exploitation and harm without crossing into surveillance. She brings a background in politics and psychology alongside self-taught engineering experience.
Together, the authors combine perspectives from leadership development and technical practice to explore what responsible AI could look like in everyday decision-making.
Looking beyond the chatbot
The authors have also developed an accompanying keynote, AI for Equity: Leading Change Beyond the Chatbot. It explores uses of AI beyond the large language models that dominate much of the public conversation.
Drawing on their EQUITAS™ self-assessment, the session encourages leaders to consider practical questions they can take back to their organisations.
A central message captures the approach behind both the book and the keynote: “AI is not the solution. It is the tool. The solution is human.”
AI for Equity: Creating a More Equitable Society for All is priced at £19.99. Further information is available at jennygarrett.global.