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The AI community says Black Lives Matter, but more work needs to be done

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The AI community stood with the Black Lives Matter movement in a meaningful way this week, but work remains to be done to effect change.
This week, as thousands of protestors marched in cities around the U. S. to bring attention to the death of George Floyd, police brutality, and abuses at the highest levels of government, members of the AI research community made their own small gestures of support. NeurIPS, one of the world’s largest AI and machine learning conferences, extended its technical paper submission deadline by 48 hours. And researchers pledged to match donations to Black in AI, a nonprofit promoting the sharing ideas, collaborations, and discussion of initiatives to increase the presence of black people in the field of AI.
“NeurIPS grieves for its Black community members devastated by the cycle of police and vigilante violence. [We] mourn… for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and thousands of black people who have lost their lives to this violence. [And we stand] with its black community to affirm that, today and every day, black lives matter,” the NeurIPS board wrote in a statement announcing its decision.
In a separate, independent effort aimed at spurring mentors to reach out to black researchers as they finalize their NeurIPS submissions, Google Brain scientist Nicolas Le Roux and Google AI lead Jeff Dean pledged to contribute $1,000 to Black in AI for every person who receives assistance.

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