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Voices: There’s an invidious ‘tech bro’ culture in AI – what the sector needs is women

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Everyone agrees that AI is already doing a great deal of good things – it is, for example, speeding up and making more reliable the analysis of mammograms.

The technology is moving at the speed of light, and will undoubtedly do even more good in the future. Clearly we, as a country, need to harness our many assets to make the most of it. The government’s response to this new technological frontier, however, seems on the small side.

We need an as urgent and

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