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The D&I Chief Who Reports Directly to Zuckerberg and Sandberg
Jul.16 — Facebook Inc. hasn’t been able to increase black representation in technical roles by a single percentage point since starting to report diversity numbers in 2014. Facebook’s Chief Diversity Officer Maxine Williams discusses the social network’s struggle to recruit & retain black employees with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang.
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Crusoe CEO: Data Center Indusry Has a ‘Marketing Issue’
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Former FTC Technologist Warns Against an AI ‘Cartel’
As frontier AI labs seek greater coordination on safety, Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute and former FTC Chief Technologist, warns that government-backed antitrust exemptions could create a durable “cartel” that ultimately harms competition. He argues companies can collaborate on safety standards without suspending antitrust rules, and that existing consumer-protection and…
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Timothy Nguyen
July 16, 2020 at 11:09 pm
First!!
Voltaire
July 17, 2020 at 12:33 am
WTF is a chief diversity officer lmfao
Voltaire
July 17, 2020 at 12:37 am
Watching this is absolute madness, Orwells 1984 doesn’t come close in terms of level of dystopian. You got this chick with a made up title breaking down employees based on skin color and making all sorts of charts and diagrams to try find more ways to divide people based on skin color rather than individuals qualities. Fucking scary.
KL Rider
July 17, 2020 at 12:48 am
One word: HOGWASH!!