Storytime I guess. So, I went. Was just removed 20 min in from the Zoom b/c I asked them why the slate of speakers was still all men - Adam Cheyer, Thom Tillis, Neil Jacobstein. There are so many brilliant women who can speak to the topic of GPT-3 + AI Ethics. They removed me 1/ https://twitter.com/kathytpham/status/1334508572307312642

The invite subject : "Zoom with Vint Cerf, Adam Cheyer, Neil Jacobstein, Tim O'Reilly, Danny Kahneman, US Senators, Congressmen, Mayors, Foreign Ministers, other Diplomats, Big Media and Tech CEO's, and more, on the Future of AI & GPT-3, Ethics & AI, and Political Polar..." 2/

If you're going to have that many notable people, shouldn't you also include the many experts in AI Ethics, Future of AI, GPT-3? Seems like it would make the event even MORE appealing. I greatly admire @timoreilly and @vgcerf they both have influenced... 3/

how I think about the internet and what to do with my own tech background. So many others can add to the conversation! I recommended a computer scientist, AI ethics leader, who happens to also be a Black women. The organizer emailed me multiple times late at night.. 4/

to ask if I could instead moderate a session with him and her because he wanted to call out her dishonesty and bullying. I was rather floored, and sounded like a character assassination or ambush? Anyways, decided to join the call anyways, hoping to learn. 5/

About 5 minutes, since chat was disabled, I messaged the Zoom host that I was hoping this was better, that all the names dropped were still all men, that there are so many more perspectives missing on this topic. And then they removed me from the meeting. 6/

These convenings about AI and Ethics are important. They drive decisions across industry and politics. The people in this rooms were certainly by some measures powerful and important. They know that, it's how they market the event. I hope these groups do better. 7/

It is a little amusing at this time to be removed from a conversation on AI ethics for expressing dismay at the lack of expertise on AI and ethics. Though I guess with recent events, unsurprising. 8/