Nvidia staffers had warned CEO Jensen Huang of threat AI would pose to minorities
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Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado left their 2020 meeting with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang feeling frustrated. The pair, both former presidents of the company's Black employees group, had spent a year working with colleagues from across the company on a presentation meant to warn Huang of the potential dangers that artificial intelligence (AI) technology posed, especially to minorities.The 22-slide deck and other documents, reviewed by Bloomberg News, pointed to Nvidia's growing role in shaping the future of AI — saying its chips were making AI ubiquitous — and warned that increased regulatory scrutiny was inevitable. The discussion included instances of bias in facial-recognition technologies used by the industry to power self-driving cars. Their aim, th...