With Black History Month celebrations going on in several industries, it is important to realize the need and necessity to have black folks in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) arena as well! Here are a few examples of consequences that have occurred due to bias within AI systems and negligence within AI processes. In April 2020, a Google Image labelling service misclassified his black friend as a gorilla. There are a lot more models like this, and it isn't generally an issue at the human side, the AI or Ml based innovation will talk what the information has been taken care of to them. In the light of this, the tech industry has an important responsibility towards society, and here we are introducing you to seven top ML Leaders of Diversity -- who are making an impact in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning world.

Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode Jess and Dylan chat to Ruha Benjamin about "Love, Challenge, and Hope: Building a Movement to Dismantle the New Jim Code". How is racism embedded in technological systems? How do we address the root causes of discrimination? How do we as designers and consumers of AI technology reclaim our agency and create a world of equity for all?

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Ruha Benjamin is an associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University, and lectures around the intersection of race, justice and technology. She founded the Just Data Lab, which aims to bring together activists, technologists and artists to reassess how data can be used for justice. Her latest book, Race After Technology, looks at how the design of technology can be discriminatory. Where did the motivation to write this book come from? It seems like we're looking to outsource decisions to technology, on the assumption that it's going to make better decisions than us.