DeBaun: Black tech representation is vastly higher for AI than during Web1
Morgan DeBaun · Blavity's Morgan DeBaun & Reid Hoffman discuss how they use AI at work | Masters of Scale · Dec 9, 2023 · at 11:20
Morgan DeBaun, CEO of Blavity, discusses the historical shift in diversity from the early internet era to today's generative AI inflection point.
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“And I think the generation that built the first version of all these tools and products that we use, like Netscape and everything, we maybe weren't a part of it because there wasn't a lot of black folks that were in technology at the time. And now there are, and we're growing.”
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