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Is it just me or there are not many african americans working in AI research and industry. I don't have stats to back me up but that's my personal observation. People in the field, what are your thoughts on it.

>>ckugbl+(OP)
This twitter may be of interest to you, they aggregate information on this topic. https://twitter.com/black_in_ai. I don't know why race is relevant to this article though. Must we make everything a race issue?

>>ckugbl+(OP)
I don't have any statistics for you, but Google at least is looking to improve on this a bit. A good friend of mine from their NYC Brain office moved to Accra, Ghana just last week to help build out their new office there.

>>ckugbl+(OP)
There are just not many AA in tech in the bay area. Most pictures from Silicon Valley often look like that.

>>nickpa+E1
I don't think an office in Ghana would be employing very many African Americans (or, for that matter, very many Americans of any background).

>>ckugbl+(OP)
Certainly there seem to be no black folks in the photo captioned "OpenAI team and their families at our November 2018 offsite."

>>ckugbl+(OP)
I thought a similar thing when I saw that pic: Not a single black male or female. And I'm all like, "Where am I?" LoL

>>Bucket+a1
Thank you for this!!!

>>nickpa+E1
A Ghana office would be presumably to recruit Africans, not African Americans. There is a difference :)

>>josour+j7
You're welcome!!!

>>ckugbl+(OP)
African-American Founder/Research Engineer of AGI venture (Monad.ai) here. We exist.