Comment by gedy
5 days ago
> "In March last year more than 180 staff wrote a letter to leadership expressing “serious concerns” about the organisation’s approach to diversity after it appointed four men to senior roles"
This is part of the "identity crisis"?
Gods forbid that these four men might have been best qualified for the job, or are we reducing suitability to box-ticking again?
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Turing was a pioneer in technology. The organization's mandate and reason for it's funding is as a "national institute for data science and artificial intelligence". Putting Turing's name on it doesn't mean the organization must serve primarily as a performant or symbolic role to his sexuality.
And regardless it sounds like the gender ratio is in line with STEM averages (or even above average).
> At ATI, management at the scientific leadership level referred to in the letter – people who oversee research into AI – has six women to 13 men, a split of approximately 32%-68%. The gender split among ATI’s total staff of 560 people is 53% male and 47% female.
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Monty Python seems especially appropriate here.
> It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression! [0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA
Alright, you can have the right to have babies.
I mean go ahead and pretend you're black or whatever, I'm sure that'll go over well with the people you work with every day. There are some real weirdos on this site
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