The AI industry is on the verge of becoming another boys’ club. We’re all going to lose out if it does

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:52:20 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/the-ai-industry-is-on-the-verge-of-becoming-another-boys-club-were-all-going-to-lose-out-if-it-does-219802>

"A recent New York Times article 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 for a software conference.

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."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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