"not enough black people in AI" - can we get past this already? I'm a person of color and this is beyond pandering and borderline offensive to those of us who don't seek to publicly engage in this kind of "progress".
I'd love to. Do you have any thoughts about the article past the second paragraph? As a person of color, do Seeta Peña Gangadharan's findings resonate with you?
Wanting attention and pursuing excellence are two very different ways to go about your professional or academic career. Looking for perfect racial distributions in all fields is beyond a fool's errand.
I guess I didn't see it as playing the victim card as much as it was a call out of how the lack of diversity in the specific field of AI can have profound effects on how we understand and assess performance of these models
> Looking for perfect racial distributions in all fields is beyond a fool's errand.
I agree with that in principle but I think it is equally foolish to never ask how the racial distribution of a specific field might affect major advances and technologies coming out of that field