Representation in Tech
This gender makes up roughly only 25% of the tech workforce.
What are women?
This term means the gap between people who have vs. don’t have internet access.
What is the digital divide?
This happens when AI reinforces racial or gender stereotypes.
What is algorithmic bias?
This is the name for AI tools used to predict where crime may happen.
What is predictive policing?
AI hiring tools analyze this type of document first.
What is a résumé?
This racial group makes up about 5% of U.S. tech jobs despite being 14% of population.
Who are Black Americans?
This U.S. population is most likely to lack broadband — rural or urban?
What are rural communities?
AI’s facial recognition struggles most with this type of skin tone.
What are darker skin tones?
Predictive policing has been criticized for over-targeting this racial group.
Who are Black Americans?
Amazon scrapped its AI hiring tool because it was biased against whom?
Who are women?
These two racial groups combined make up less than 20% of major Silicon Valley tech employment.
Who are Black and Latino workers?
This 2020 global crisis exposed major digital access inequality for students.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
This popular AI tool was exposed for misidentifying Black people as criminals.
What is facial recognition?
This U.S. city first adopted and later abandoned predictive policing after backlash.
What is Chicago?
AI often unfairly prioritizes resumes from people who graduated from these top-tier schools.
What are Ivy League universities?
This company was criticized for having only 4% Black and Latino employees in 2023.
What is Google?
This continent has the lowest internet access globally.
What is Africa?
This AI hiring tool (by Amazon) rejected resumes with the word “women’s” in it.
What is Amazon’s AI recruiting tool?
This major civil rights organization called predictive policing “a digital stop-and-frisk.”
What is the ACLU?
AI hiring tools unintentionally reinforce this term — hiring people who look just like current employees.
What is homogenous hiring / mirror bias?
This Silicon Valley phrase refers to young white/Asian male dominance in tech culture.
What is “brogrammer culture”?
This extremely expensive type of internet is often the only option in remote areas.
What is satellite internet?
The root cause of most AI bias — biased ______.
What is biased data?
The name of the specific AI program that tried to predict crime in Florida and caused racial profiling.
What is COMPAS or PredPol?
This is the ethical process of fixing AI hiring discrimination before deployment.
What is algorithmic auditing / bias auditing?