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Tackling AI Bias: The Mission of Mutale Nkonde’s Nonprofit

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We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Mutale Nkonde is the founding CEO of the nonprofit AI For the People (AFP), which seeks to increase the amount of Black voices in tech. It established AI for the People as a key thought leader around how to develop protocols to guide the design, deployment, and governance of AI systems that comply with local nondiscrimination laws. There is so much work to be done on reskilling our workforce for a time when AI systems do low-stakes labor-saving tasks. What information can they give us about how AI systems work and do not work from them, and how can we use these insights to make sure AI truly is for the People?