Getting Smart Staff, Getting Smart; AI4All Extends The Power of Artificial Intelligence to High School Girls
"In 2015, Stanford’s Fei-Fei Li, Olga Russakovsky, and Rick Sommer
started a summer camp to address the diversity crisis. The early
programs, focused on high school girls, had incredible results including
increased technical ability, connections to role models, and a sense of
belonging in computer science and AI for participants.
A new nonprofit, AI4ALL, was formed last year to extend access to
summer programs like the one launched by Li, Russakovsky, and
Sommer–beginning with Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, Berkeley,
Princeton, Boston University, and Simon Fraser.
The mission of AI4ALL, according to Posner, is to increase diversity
and inclusion in the field and to make sure the benefits are widely
shared by democratizing access to tools and involveing [sic] diverse voices in
the field."
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