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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Arielle Pardes

The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind

A silhouette of a woman stands beside columns of binary code
‘AI is creating some of the fastest growing, highest paying … jobs in the global economy. Women are just strikingly underrepresented.’ Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images

There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent underclass”, a phrase describing the fate of those who won’t have upward mobility in the age of AI.

The phrase usually describes a future in which AI automates human jobs. But for women in tech, it’s starting to look like the present.

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