Tag: diversity in tech
Ethics Leadership Continues to Churn at Google; Bengio Out, Dr. Croak is In
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Ethicists continue to churn at Google with the departure of Samy Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist known for cofounding Google Brain, who had been...
Elite Math Students Found by Study to Come From Same Countries...
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Two Dartmouth College researchers studied the countries of origin for the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize in...
Google Wades Into Controversy with Dismissal of AI Ethicist Timnit Gebru
By John P. Desmond, Editor, AI Trends
Google ignited a firestorm around its ethics program last week when it let go a prominent AI ethicist, Timnit Gebru,...
Work of the Future: Addressing Skills Gap with Education, Training, Expanded...
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Thousands of jobs go unfulfilled today because of the gap in skills between requirements of the job and...
MIT Study: Effects of Automation on the Future of Work Challenges...
By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor
Rising productivity brought on by automation has not led an increase in income for workers. This is among the...
Compute Power Concentration Creating a Digital Divide in AI Research, Study...
By AI Trends Staff
In the era of deep learning, cloud compute power is being concentrated in the hands of elite universities, at the expense...
Startup: Andrea Roberson of AI4US Seeks Diversity in AI, Tech Workforce
By AI Trends Staff
Andrea Roberson is CEO and founder of AI4US, which aims to address the lack of racial and gender diversity in high...