How is AI tackling British bashfulness?
REPORT
17 May 2019
How is AI tackling British bashfulness?

Call it bashfulness or just good old British reserve, we’re known the world over as the nation least likely to talk about things. Whether it’s sex, health or money, we keep it all to ourselves, but could the potential of AI-based innovations help us open up and shed our shame?

Justin Hancock

Justin Hancock is a youth worker and sex education trainer. He created BISH and is the author of Sex Explained: A Real and Relevant Guide to Sex, Relationships and You.

Matt Hiscock

Matt Hiscock has been the general manager of Harry’s since 2016. Founded in 2013, Harry’s is an American company that sells shaving and grooming equipment for men. The social mission side of the company hopes to help 500,000 men by 2021.

Lynda Cowell

Lynda Cowell is a London-based writer, web editor, and former BBC television researcher. Having written for the likes of The Voice, Pride, The Guardian, Time Out and Marie Claire, much of her work has focused on race and gender, but not exclusively. In her free time, she likes to read, drink red wine, and watch the kind of television programmes other people sneer at.