Lately, I have been getting many questions from folks who don’t have an engineering or computer science background, especially women, asking how they can get started in the Artificial Intelligence (AI)space. The tech industry has been traditionally unwelcoming to those from non-technical backgrounds. This combined with widespread perception that you…

It’s time for some real talk on diversity in tech. Giorgia Meloni is poised to become Italy’s first female leader and will head the country’s most right-wing government since the era of fascist Benito Mussolini. For those who define diversity within the narrow lens of gender, election of this anti-immigrant…

Over the years, I’ve hosted many AI & emerging tech events and there’s one question that comes up a lot. Do I need to be an engineer or have a PhD to get a job in AI? Lack of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) talent or the “STEM pipeline issue”…

Last week, Basecamp co-founder reminded everyone that tech is still a very insular place with his announcement that discussion of social issues were a “major distraction” and banned all “societal politics” discussions from their workplace. At a time when hate crimes against minorities are surging, asking employees to shed their…

The first “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” list was published in 2018 to raise awareness about the talented women working hard to prevent and mitigate the harms from reckless development and deployment of AI systems. Since then, WAIE has published an updated list with 100 new names every year…

“We don’t know any qualified women.” This is the most common excuse from event organizers and tech hiring managers when questioned about the glaring lack of diversity in their speaker line-ups and on their teams. Every time we start compiling the ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics’ list, it triggers…

As Meta joined the tech bloodbath this week by firing more than 11,000 employees, I was reminded of a conversation during my visit to India earlier this year. I decided to skip my usual hotel and stay at the Taj, which is part of the iconic Tata Group, India’s largest…

Social media sites buzzed with excitement when OpenAI announced that DALL·E, their AI system for generating images and art from text description, was available in beta. There are valid ethical and legal concerns about the ownership of AI-generated art and impact on artists. In addition, AI models also amplify biases…