Does Big Tech Have the Right Talent to Win Our Confidence With Its AI Creation?

Unless big tech rethinks its talent base and what constitutes “fair” and “equitable” in designing the rules around AI, we can only expect problems to persist.
Does Big Tech Have the Right Talent to Win Our Confidence With Its AI Creation?
AI letters and a robot miniature are seen in an illustration image on June 23, 2023. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Shannon Edwards
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The biggest generative AI gaffes of late, including Google Gemini’s text-to-image portrayal of “a Pope” as a woman, our Founding Fathers as Asian and black, and text responses suggesting false equivalencies between high-profile individuals such as Elon Musk and the Nazis, make for click-worthy headlines decrying big tech’s “clear bias,” but those don’t even begin to address the larger and more nuanced issue at hand.

Shannon Edwards
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Shannon Edwards is an entrepreneur, consumer technology trends and policy expert, digital marketer, and journalist. She has led startups globally and has served for years as a media go-to on global tips and trends, and consumer advocacy.