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Women in AI: Heidy Khlaaf, safety engineering director at Trail of Bits
Heidy Khlaaf, profiled as part of TechCrunch's series on women in AI, is an engineering director at cyber firm Trail of Bits.
Retention rates and the ratio of women holding leadership positions has remained largely the same since I joined the field, and that’s over a decade ago. Recognizing this lack of progress helped me understand that building a strong personal community is much more valuable as a source of support rather than relying on DEI initiatives that unfortunately have not moved the needle, given that bias and skepticism towards technical women is still quite pervasive in tech. And this is because the nature of AI systems is to provide outcomes based on statistical and probabilistic inferences and correlations from historical data, and not any type of reasoning, factual evidence or “causation.”
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