AI Needs to Become Less Elitist

The best thing the technology community can do to help is to debunk the notion that only people who know how to code can work with AI. Instead, the world needs to focus on lowering the educational and psychological barriers to entry for computer-skill training and AI literacy – and that starts in grade school. In the United Kingdom, for instance, there is a clear digital skills gap and, unfortunately, stark gender disparity among student populations interested in computer science. In fact, only 12% of high school students in the country chose to take computer courses in 2017. On top of that, only 20% of those students were female.