We Don't Have to Choose Between Ethical AI and Innovative AI

We keep hearing about how AI is going to steal women's jobs, proliferate racial bias, make the rich richer and the poor poorer. And if we focus solely on that fear, it very well might. As the founder of Girls Who Code, I know as well as anyone the risks technology poses to the most vulnerable among us. But I've also seen how, when we're distracted by doomsday, we miss incredible opportunities to help those same communities. That's why I believe the next generation of AI will close inequality gaps--if we stop fixating on how it will widen them.