Meredith Broussard

We think about Star Trek.

It's summer.

It's the Dartmouth Math Department.

And everybody has left.

So the department is empty.

And 10 men get together to invent the field of artificial intelligence.

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My name is Meredith Broussard.

I'm a data journalism professor at NYU, and I'm the author of More Than a Glitch, Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech.

Something else that I think was really interesting about this conference is they decided on the name artificial intelligence as the name of their new field.

at the forefront of artificial intelligence are great consumers of and lovers of science fiction.

And so there's a lot of desire to make science fiction real that you're going to make a sentient machine.

I still remember the day very well because this was a river filled with dead bodies.

Well, the early days of artificial intelligence and the early days of computing are dominated by men, mostly white men,

who were educated at elite institutions.

The problem is that this small and homogeneous group of people has common biases and people embed their own biases in technology.

And so we see the blind spots of the creators and

than reflected in the technological artifacts that they create.

Everybody is interested now in home computers.

And there was a big breakthrough in a subfield of artificial intelligence called neural nets.