A Smarter Way to Think About Intelligent Machines

Arguing for more diversity and inclusion is not inherently ideological. There’s actually a good deal of science that shows increased diversity in groups leads to better outcomes. Here’s an article that describes one example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriklarson/2017/09/21/new-research-diversity-inclusion-better-decision-making-at-work/

Also, one could make the argument that the lack of diversity and inclusion has negative effects on products. E.g.:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2166207-discriminating-algorithms-5-times-ai-showed-prejudice/

And this one in the news recently:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight-idUSKCN1MK08G

Diversity and inclusion shouldn’t be ideological topics, unfortunately they’ve been made that way for political purposes.

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