“AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male, comparatively affluent and focused on the US and Europe.”
"An industry brimming with people who espouse liberal, self-consciously progressive opinions so often seems to push the world in the opposite direction."

John Harris interview with @timnitGebru, the Ethiopian-born computer scientist who sacked by Google after pointing out the inequalities built into #AI.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination

^{John Harris (The Guardian)}