Diversity as technical foundation Ajay sees diversity as a technical requirement rather than a corporate policy initiative. The concentration of AI development in narrow demographic groups creates systemic problems that affect the technology itself.
“ You can already see there’ s a huge tech bro culture when it comes to the industry,” he says.“ All the big players who are regularly called into meetings in Washington – they’ re all males, and the entire thing is going in a direction which is very skewed towards male domains in the AI market.”
“ I would like to think we are world leaders in the deployed AI space because I think that’ s an untapped market at the moment”
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