In a 2019 report from New York University’s AI Now Institute, researchers noted that more than 80% of AI professors were men. Furthermore, Black individuals made up just 2.5% of Google employees and 4% of those working at Facebook and Microsoft. In addition, the report authors noted that the “overwhelming focus on ‘women in tech’ ” when discussing diversity issues in AI “is too narrow and likely to privilege white women over others.”
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