Top tech companies like Google say they are eager to encourage women and members of historically underrepresented groups to consider careers in computer science research.
The dawn of the era of artificial intelligence, or AI, has made teaching a wide variety of students to create new technology even more urgent. To work properly, AI models must be trained with broad sets of data with many different kinds of users in mind.
In 2018, global giant Google created exploreCSR. The program funds efforts to create opportunities in the technology sector, especially in research, for historically underserved and underrepresented groups.
A team of interdisciplinary researchers at Arizona State University has received a three-year exploreCSR grant to develop an inclusive AI research community.
Their initiative will introduce middle schoolers to AI and its applications in diverse fields, such as cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, robotics and the arts. The ASU team will keep those students involved throughout their high school years and beyond, giving them research opportunities and experience mentoring younger students.
The work builds on a prior successful camp program held in the summer of 2024.
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