I know diversity in tech is a hot button issue but I think hidden underneath the politics of it all the most important reason to champion more diversity is AI.

I know diversity in tech is a hot button issue but I think hidden underneath the politics of it all the most important reason to champion more diversity is AI. I don't think we're anywhere close to general AI so any AI system out there is built on what we feed it. If your music suggestion algorithm has a biased AI that's one thing, but when you're using AI to make critical decisions in society like who gets hired/recurited, medical diagnoses and other things you need to be extremely careful. When designing AI models the broadest set of viewpoints should be considered. Any piece of AI is simply a reflection of it's creators, we need to make sure that some sort of equitable consensus is reached before deploying AI to critical human scale issues.