On the first day of November last year, some 20,000 Google employees at more than 40 offices across the world staged a walkout protesting how the company had dealt with serious accusations of sexual assault and harassment and what many employees described as a culture of impunity for executives. The event was planned by a core group of seven organizers who work at Google. On Monday, two of those women, Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton, shared examples of retaliation they've face from the company since on a Google-internal mailing list. Wired first reported the two were facing blowback from Google for helping to organize the protest. Stapleton is a 12-year veteran at Google.

Our engagement with AI will transform us. Technology always does, even while we are busy using it to reinvent our world. The introduction of the machine gun by Richard Gatling during America's Civil War, and its massive role in World War I, obliterated our ideas of military gallantry and chivalry and emblazoned in our minds Wilfred Owen's imagery of young men who "die as Cattle." The computer revolution beginning after World War II ushered in a way of understanding and talking about the mind in terms of hardware, wiring and rewiring that still dominates neurology. How will AI change us? How has it changed us already?

Millennials are now the largest consumer group. As a result, it only makes sense for businesses to consider their thoughts and feelings when deciding which technologies to invest in. One of the most promising areas of innovation is AI. Since 2000, there has been a 6X increase in VC investments in AI startups. Plenty of businesses are adopting AI technology and the global revenues from "smart" enterprise applications is expected to grow from $1.62B in 2018 to $31.2B by 2025. Clearly, the business interest is there.