>Fifthly, machine learning, and computer science in general, have a huge diversity problem. At our CS faculty, only 30% of undergrads and 15% of the professors

>Fifthly, machine learning, and computer science in general, have a huge diversity problem. At our CS faculty, only 30% of undergrads and 15% of the professors are women. Yes, and the deep sea fishing, oil drilling and logging industries also aren't super diverse and have a severe lack of women. I don't see anyone complaining about that. Different groups have different preferences. I've met several women who have gone into science and IT only to find it immensely unfulfilling, as it's often a very socially isolating job by nature, and leave to switch careers. If there's a rule or law preventing women from getting into the industry, then let us know and we'll change that. But don't criticize an entire industry because women on average chose to pursue other passions. >At this very moment, thousands of Uyghurs are put into concentration camps based on computer vision algorithms invented by this community, and nobody seems even remotely to care. What does he propose be done about this? Tell Chinese government bureaucrats to stop "stealing" publicly accessible research papers and code to implement tools that help commit genocide? Sue the Chinese government for violating licensing agreements that require "no violation of human rights"? Not everything should, or can be, about global politics. We should let people researching machine learning worry about machine learning, and leave the broader socio-political effects to political pundits and sociologists.