On November 29, 2023, Analytics Insight — whose business model is pretty much “clickbait as a service” — published an article titled Ten Women AI Leaders to Enhance OpenAI’s Board, pictured in the screenshot below (along with a big error that I’ll point out shortly):
It bore a striking similarity to an article published three days earlier: 10 Women AI Leaders Who OpenAI Should Consider For Their Board, by Rebekah Bastian (SVP of Product at Glowforge), pictured in the screenshot below:
Later versions of Analytics Insight’s article included acknowledgment of the original Forbes article:
In spite of Analytics Insight giving credit where credit is due, their list of top ten women is markedly different. Here’s Rebekah Bastian’s list from the original Forbes article…
- Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- Dr. Timnit Gebru
- Alessya Visnjic
- Dr. Latanya Sweeney
- Professor Daphne Koller
- Daniela Braga
- Professor Manuela Veloso
- Lisa Nelson
- Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D.
- Kieran Snyder
…and here’s the Analytics Insight list:
- Fei-Fei Li
- Rumman Chowdhury
- Timnit Gebru
- Mona Sloane
- Joy Buolamwini
- Yoshua Bengio
- Kai-Fu Lee
- Hinda Haned
- Danielle Belgrave
- Maja Pantic
Note entries 6 and 7, Yoshua Bengio and Kai-Fu Lee — neither of them are women, and their blurb about Bengio even uses a male pronoun:
6. Yoshua Bengio:
Deep Learning Pioneer: Bengio’s pioneering work in deep learning has had a profound impact on the AI landscape.
Educational Leadership: As a professor at the University of Montreal, he contributes to shaping the next generation of AI researchers and practitioners.
Consider this a timely reminder on the first anniversary of ChatGPT’s release (which happened November 30, 2022): For the moment, you still have to double-check an AI’s output before you publish it as your own!