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Women in AI: Sandra Wachter, professor of data ethics at Oxford
Sandra Watcher, profiled as part of TechCrunch's series on women in AI, is a professor of data ethics at the University of Oxford.
In a piece in Wired we discussed how harmful leveling down can be in practice — in healthcare, for example, enforcing group fairness could mean missing more cases of cancer than strictly necessary while also making a system less accurate overall. I had the privilege of incredible mentors such as my Ph.D. supervisor and I have a growing network of like-minded people of all genders that are doing their best to steer the path forward to improve the situation for everyone who is interested in tech. Accepted wisdom alone cannot solve novel problems, so women and other groups that have historically faced barriers to entering AI and other tech fields hold the tools to truly innovate and offer something new.
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