Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution, where AI makes and augments life-changing decisions at scale. Perhaps most eerie about this impending singularity is the absence of women who will influence it: we have a 28-point gender gap in the AI talent pool.
Unlike previous industrial revolutions where women were still absent, the 4th Industrial Revolution magnifies the ramifications of gender inequity and we need to act now to close the 28-point gender gap in AI.
Why We Need Gender Equity in AI (Now)
The consequences of gender inequity in the 4th Industrial Revolution, specifically in AI, hinge on the premise that automation lies at the center of 4th Industrial Revolution technologies.
Since algorithms learn based on past data, they will learn that women are not CEOs, nor are they elected officials, nor are they AI professionals.
When engineers, largely unaware of their biased data, feed algorithms learning material, they not only program these biases into the system, they
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