We Must Fix AI’s Diversity Problem

A lack of diverse staff is creating racist, sexist and classist intelligence

Pepper, a white robot developed by Softbank Robotics. Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash.

Our technology industry has a diversity problem. This in itself is not a new issue. But the subset of our industry working on artificial intelligence (AI) has a particularly acute diversity problem, and it is having a negative impact on the lives of millions of people, all…