The AI industry is on the verge of becoming another boys' club—we're all going to lose out if it does. Joy Buolamwini is a Rhodes scholar, Fulbright fellow, Stamps scholar, Astronaut scholar and Anita Borg Institute scholar. Her work focuses on reducing bias in AI. Credit: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA. The AI industry recently released a list of people 'behind the dawn of the modern artificial intelligence movement'—and not a single woman was named.
It came less than a week after news of a fake auto-generated woman being listed as a speaker on the agenda. Unfortunately, the omission of women from the history of STEM isn't a new phenomenon. Women have been missing from these narratives for centuries. In the wake of recent AI developments, we now have a choice: are we going to leave women out of these conversations as well—even as they continue to make massive contributions to the AI industry? Doing so risks leading us into the same fallacy that established computing itself as a 'man's world'. The reality, of course, is quite different. At the Harvard Observator
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