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Is it just me or there are not many african americans working in AI research and industry. I don't have stats to back me up but that's my personal observation.

Is it just me or there are not many african americans working in AI research and industry. I don't have stats to back me up but that's my personal observation. People in the field, what are your thoughts on it.

BucketSort 8y ago
This twitter may be of interest to you, they aggregate information on this topic. https://twitter.com/black_in_ai https://twitter.com/black_in_ai. I don't know why race is relevant to this article though. Must we make everything a race issue?
- josourcing 8y ago
  Thank you for this!!!
  - BucketSort 8y ago
    You're welcome!!!
nickparker 8y ago
I don't have any statistics for you, but Google at least is looking to improve on this a bit. A good friend of mine from their NYC Brain office moved to Accra, Ghana just last week to help build out their new office there.
- perennate 8y ago
  I don't think an office in Ghana would be employing very many African Americans (or, for that matter, very many Americans of any background).
- duado 8y ago
  A Ghana office would be presumably to recruit Africans, not African Americans. There is a difference :)
segmondy 8y ago
There are just not many AA in tech in the bay area. Most pictures from Silicon Valley often look like that.
carapace 8y ago
Certainly there seem to be no black folks in the photo captioned "OpenAI team and their families at our November 2018 offsite."
josourcing 8y ago
I thought a similar thing when I saw that pic: Not a single black male or female. And I'm all like, "Where am I?" LoL
noddy1w 8y ago
Elon musk is african american and he founded OpenAI
m0n4d 8y ago
African-American Founder/Research Engineer of AGI venture (Monad.ai) here. We exist.