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Zena Assaad, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University

The AI industry is on the verge of becoming another boys' club. We’re all going to lose out if it does

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A recent New York Times article released a list of people “behind the dawn of the modern artificial intelligence movement” – and not a single woman was named. It came less than a week after news of a fake auto-generated woman being listed as a speaker on the agenda for a software conference.

Unfortunately, the omission of women from the history of STEM isn’t a new phenomenon. Women have been missing from these narratives for centuries.

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