Meet the High Schooler Shaking Up Artificial Intelligence

"The best thing to do is to go out and try it, make it yourself from your own hands,"

Russakovsky is part of a movement among AI researchers trying to get more high schoolers tinkering with AI systems. One motivation is a belief that the field is currently too male, well-off, and white. "AI is a field that’s going to revolutionize everything in our society, and we can’t have it be built by people from a homogenous group that doesn’t represent society as a whole," Russakovsky says. She cofounded AI4ALL, a foundation that organizes camps that give high-school students from diverse backgrounds a chance to work with and learn from AI researchers.

Tom Simonite

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-high-schooler-shaking-up-artificial-intelligence/