“AI is going to change 100% of jobs, 100% of industries, and 100% of professions.” – Ginni Rometti, CEO of IBM
As AI goes full steam ahead, it’s critical to ask the right questions while still in early stages: who is building and shaping this important technology? It’s also crucial to ensure we’re incorporating the perspectives of youth who will inherit the outcomes of the decisions we make today about AI. There is a diversity crisis in AI: under 14% of AI researchers are women globally, and in the US, only 2.6% of tenure-track engineering faculty identify as African American or Black and only 3.6% identify as Hispanic or Latinx. When diverse voices are excluded from AI, the reliability and fairness of AI systems come into question.
Join Tess Posner, CEO of AI talent and education nonprofit, AI4ALL, and three of the program’s alumni who are starting out on their AI journeys. Researcher Kasar Profit; Leslie Bravo, founder of STEM Academy for Girls; and Sara Parker, research assistant at Network Dynamics Lab at McGill University, will all share their thoughts and experiences regarding challenges and concrete solutions in shaping an inclusive and ethical future in AI.