Artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a threshold. “In the past five years, AI has made the leap from something that mostly happens in research labs or other highly controlled settings to something that’s out in society affecting people’s lives,” says Michael Littman, chair of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, hosted at Stanford.
50 Global Hubs for Top AI Talent
If you want to diversify your AI team, here’s where to look.
December 21, 2021
HBR Staff; Source Images: Brian Kostiuk/Luke Stackpoole/Unsplash
Summary.
As AI expands into more and more facets of our lives, there is also more scrutiny on who is developing it. Building ethical AI that works for everyone will require a diverse workforce that brings a broad range of perspectives. To achieve this, however, companies will need to look outside of the usual hubs, such as San Francisco. To aid in that effort, the authors have compiled the top 50 cities for AI talent and analyzed how diverse the population of developers is in each. This can help companies direct their recruiting and hiring as they try to build a broader, more diverse AI workforce.
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