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Stephanie from Financial Time said that When Ashwini Asokan was on a flight from Silicon Valley to India in 2013, she had decided diversity was going to be the critical factor to the success of her artificial intelligence start-up Mad Street Den.
Fed up with often being the only woman in the room, there was no question in her mind about enforcing a 50-50 gender policy, even though she knew that it was a radical path to take in the male-dominated tech sector.
Ms Asokan, 39, maintains diversity is necessary to break the stranglehold that tech groups such as Google and Facebook have on AI’s development and application.
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