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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Rebecca Schneid](https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/) ## Rebecca Schneid Reporter  Athina Kanioura; Clara Shih; Julie Kim Athina Kanioura; Clara Shih; Julie KimCaroline Brehman—AFP/Getty Images; David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images; Barry Chin—The Boston Globe/Getty Images When Julie Kim takes over as CEO of pharmaceutical giant [Takeda in June](https://www.takeda.com/about/leadership/julie-kim/), she says she will be proud to be known as the first woman and Korean American to ever lead the company. “If you would have asked me 20-30 years ago, I would have said, ‘I want to be known as a good leader, or a good business woman, or a good strategist without those labels,” she said. “Unfortunately, we're in a situation where there are still very, very few women of any ethnicity in these sorts of executive-level positions. And so today, I'm proud to own those labels.” Kim discussed her career in a TIME100 Talk focused on [women’s leadership](https://time.com/collection/women-of-the-year-forum-and-gala/2026/how-businesses-can-support-women-as-leaders/) at the 2026 [TIME100 ](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people/2026/)Summit in New York City. She was joined by Athina Kanioura, Chief Executive Officer, Latin America and Global Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer of PepsiCo (a sponsor of the Summit), and [Clara Shih](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6311101/clara-shih/), founder of dear \[CC\] and senior advisor and founder of Business AI at Meta, on a panel moderated by Edward Felsenthal, executive chairman at TIME. **Read More**: [_Even Before the Glass Ceiling, the Broken Rung Is Holding Women Back at Work_](https://time.com/7266673/broken-rung-is-holding-women-back-at-work/) Their discussion comes as [recent findings](https://www.catalyst.org/about/newsroom/2026/caregiving-pressures-women-workforce) suggest that women are leaving the workforce at a record pace over the last year. Kanioura said that part of her responsibility as a female leader is to address the backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles and ensure that female leaders are “fully empowered.” “We are thinking of how we can help the next generation of female leaders to stay in the workforce, fight for what they deserve today,” she said. “We have a big responsibility now.” _Join us on_ [_TIME's YouTube_](https://www.youtube.com/time) _for the 2026 TIME100 Gala Red Carpet Livestream, starting at 6:00 p.m. EST on April 23, 2026—and available after on demand_ The panelists said a major part of their leadership roles is addressing the anxiety young people feel about the introduction of AI in their workplaces. An April [Gallup study](https://news.gallup.com/poll/708224/gen-adoption-steady-skepticism-climbs.aspx) found that while 51% of Gen Zers in the U.S. use AI at least once a week, negative sentiment toward the technology has grown sharply. Thirty-one percent of Gen Zers reported outright anger toward AI, up from 22% last year. “That's some of the challenge that's on us, as the leadership, to train new employees in the company so that they can use AI, and we can benefit from all the wonderful efficiencies that AI can bring,” Kim said. “But we also need to make sure that we keep what is appropriate for _people_ to do.” Shih said that younger people should be encouraged to engage with AI through education, and that the [“anger” Gen Z](https://www.edweek.org/technology/frustration-anger-survey-reveals-shifting-gen-z-attitudes-toward-ai/2026/04) feels towards AI is unproductive in helping them find jobs in a brutal market. “They're not using it. They're purposely not learning, and that's really not doing themselves and our society any favors,” Shih said. “We need to change the narrative and convince more young people to own their future, because AI isn't inherently good or evil. It all depends on what we decide to do with it.” The panelists acknowledged, however, that marginalized communities distrust AI due to the [industry's lack of inclusivity ](https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2024/07/racism-and-ai-bias-past-leads-bias-future)and the use of biased datasets. Shih believes that to encourage inclusivity, representation must be present at “every step” of AI model development. “It's paramount that there's representation at each step, because what happens is the model will systematize whatever bias that is there…it creates a situation where the inequality compounds over time and so that is absolutely critical,” she said. In the pharmaceutical industry, this comes down to datasets that represent people of all races, genders and backgrounds, Kim said—something that was not always true for clinical trials. “Historically, it's been very, very much skewed \[to\] Caucasian male for all diseases,” Kim said. “It is a key component of what we look at when we're enrolling our clinical trials, so that the foundational data that is used to train all of our AI algorithms in terms of spotting disease, treating disease, etc, has representative data.” ——— The TIME100 Summit convenes leaders from the global TIME100 community to spotlight solutions and encourage action toward a better world. This year’s Summit features a variety of conversations across business, culture, AI, and more. Speakers for the 2026 TIME100 Summit include António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations; former Ford Foundation president Darren Walker; actor Kate Hudson; entrepreneur Lady Victoria Beckham; creator Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast; and many more, plus a performance by Jonathan Groff. _The 2026 TIME100 Summit was presented by Booking.com, JPMorganChase, PepsiCo, Reliance, and Toyota._ Women Business Leaders on How To Solve AI’s Inclusivity Problem ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-summit-gala/2026/women-leading-era-of-transformation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-summit-gala/2026/women-leading-era-of-transformation/"},"headline":"Women Business Leaders on How To Solve AI’s Inclusivity Problem","datePublished":"2026-04-22T20:09:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-23T15:13:02.000Z","description":"Top executives at Takeda, PepsiCo and Meta discuss making AI more inclusive and preparing the next generation of women leaders for change.","url":"https://time.com/collection/time100-summit-gala/2026/women-leading-era-of-transformation/","keywords":["TIME 100","list","franchise","Accolades","Events","TIME100 Talks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt067dc152f2b33a1f/69e67b0723c6b424f2bcdf2c/3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rebecca Schneid","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/rebecca-schneid/"}],"creator":"Rebecca Schneid","articleSection":"TIME100","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt067dc152f2b33a1f/69e67b0723c6b424f2bcdf2c/3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/time100/","name":"TIME100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-100/","name":"TIME 100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-summit-gala/2026/women-leading-era-of-transformation/","name":"Women Business Leaders on How To Solve AI’s Inclusivity Problem"}}]}] ```