‘Alpha male’ AI world shuts out women

The lack of women in the booming AI sector is ‘amazingly awful’, a top UK computer scientist says

Artificial intelligence could change the world but the dearth of women in the booming sector will undermine pledges for inclusive technology, top computer scientist Wendy Hall has said.

Hall, a professor at Britain’s University of Southampton known for her pioneering research into web systems, said that the gender imbalance had long been stark.

“All the CEOs are men,” the 73-year-old said, describing the situation at a major AI summit held in New Delhi last week as “amazingly awful”.

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