>In my view, those who work in AI need to elevate those who have been excluded from shaping it, and doing so will require them to restrict relationships with powerful institutions that benefit from monitoring people.

I am not going to choose who I work with based on their race/sexuality/gender.

>Researchers should listen to, amplify, cite and collaborate with communities that have borne the brunt of surveillance: often women, people who are Black, Indigenous, LGBT+, poor or disabled.

Right, we know, only privileged straight white men escape the clutches of surveillance.

All these ideologues are doing is setting the stage for the marginalization of whites, a global minority and soon to be minority majority in the US. I can't believe this kind of casual discrimination has not only been normalized, but is openly and explicitly encouraged.

This is not ok.

Edit: you know, the same way that it takes generations to build wealth, it takes generations to build knowledge, especially institutional knowledge. If we just hand over a chunk of our industries to people because of their identities, by definition we will be even less of a meritocracy - and that's bad for all of society.