- The New York Instances checklist of “who’s who” in AI has been slammed for that includes zero ladies.
- The checklist consists of 12 males, most of them the leaders of AI or tech firms.
- “Godmother of AI” Fei-Fei Li criticized the checklist, writing, “It is not about me, however all of us in AI.”
The New York Instances’ profile of “who’s who” in AI, printed Sunday, has drawn criticism for that includes zero ladies.
The article offers credit score to a listing of twelve males — most of them are the leaders of AI firms and tech giants — for fuelling the rise of the fashionable AI motion.
“You might provide you with no ladies @nytimes? I’ve binders of them beginning with @drfeifei,” wrote tech journalist Kara Swisher in an X put up on Sunday, referring to Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li.
Li herself reposted Swisher’s criticism of NYT on X, including, “It is not about me, however all of us in AI, all the unbelievable ‘godmothers’, pioneers, energetic researchers, college students from all walks of life.”
I really feel compelled to retweet this one by @karaswisher . It’s not about me, however all of us in AI, all the unbelievable “godmothers”, pioneers, energetic researchers, college students from all walks of life. I even have “binders of them”, who’ve so impressed me &the world of AI for thus lengthy.😍 https://t.co/dbzh6D6jWm
— Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei) December 3, 2023
Li established ImageNet in 2009 as a large dataset of photographs used for coaching AI, and has been described as a “godmother of AI” for her contributions to the sphere.
Apparently it is okay to incorporate “an web thinker and self-taught A.I. researcher” and… Musk of all individuals? However not ladies who truly made huge contributions to the sphere, from Fei-Fei Li to Doina Precup and Joelle Pineau…It is simply so profoundly screwed up.
— Sasha Luccioni, PhD 💻🌎🦋✨🤗 (@SashaMTL) December 3, 2023
The NYT checklist’s choice standards was additionally criticized by Sasha Luccioni, a researcher on the AI neighborhood Hugging Face. “Apparently it is okay to incorporate ‘an web thinker and self-taught A.I. researcher’ and… Musk of all individuals? However not ladies who truly made huge contributions to the sphere, from Fei-Fei Li to Doina Precup and Joelle Pineau…It is simply so profoundly screwed up,” she wrote.
Stanford professor Roxana Daneshjou additionally listed out ladies who might have been added to the checklist. “You actually erased all of the heavy hitting ladies of AI and however included people who find themselves extra ‘influencers,'” wrote Daneshjou.
Others who criticized the checklist embrace tech investor Vinod Khosla and Toby Walsh, chief scientist of the College of New South Wales’ AI Institute.
The New York Instances “Who’s Who Behind the Daybreak of the Trendy Synthetic Intelligence Motion” article consists of: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Microsoft cofounder Invoice Gates, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google CEO Larry Web page, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, tech investor Peter Thiel, “godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, and thinker Eliezer Yudkowsky.
The New York Instances didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider, despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
