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Women in AI need better allies. Here's how we can all help

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Lin Classon, Director of Public Cloud Product at managed cloud provider Ensono and former Googler, has spent her entire career attending technology conferences – places where, unlike the public restrooms at most events, women tend to have the toilet all to themselves. Only about 25 percent of the speakers and audience of the average tech conference are female. That the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields have a problem with discrimination, harassment, and inequality towards women is a well-documented and almost universally known fact. But in the field of AI, where a lack of representation directly leads to the development of inherently biased algorithms and systems, the effects are exacerbated. For the sake of all humans, we need to start being better allies for females working in machine learning -- and in general.