Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men

Why would they even put him on the list of employees this fucker literally does nothing all day then underpays people smarter than him to enrich himself and take all the credit?

Do you really think he designed Anything of value to any of his companies besidea captial?

The lady im charge of spacex probably hates him
Tesla execs probably hate him

Elon is an asshole but he isn’t an idiot as some would claim.

There are multiple quotes from aerospace engineers that do and don’t work for him noting he understands and contributes.

John Carmack who is considered a world class coder and also had a rocket company has publicly stated Elon both knows rockets and coding.
- Elon does seem to be able to speak at least on some level about rocket design. His statements and very public beefs with his own engineers at Twitter however demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of coding for large scale infrastructure like Twitter.
- Didn't he request that Twitter engineers print out their code for him to read and assess them? lmao
- Elon is an asshole but he isn’t an idiot as some would claim.
  
  It's honestly too difficult to tell since he's constantly grifting and lying his way through life. For immediate example, he was making some fairly false statements about how rapidly his team "could colonize mars". To seem impressive and "make the sale", he threw out some wild number of how many colonists they could get settled by a certain year (number was maybe a million, timeline was maybe 2050, I'm forgetting at this point) but the moment anyone who was actually good at math, astronomy, engineering or rocket science examined that number and timeline it was clearly bull shit with no possible way to accomplish it.
  
  He's smart enough to be in a room with folks smarter than him, but everyone else is carrying the load while he takes credit.
- Actions speak louder than words and I'm not sure about his rocket knowledge but his coding experiences are definitely showing on Twitter. Maybe if he blocks everyone from accessing twitter, it'll will be perfect. wow!! he's such a genius coder.
  
  I'm sure his twitter employees, people who want to work at twitter, and his rich "world class" coder friends will vouch for that.

Not defending musk, but it is really difficult to find women in AI. The few that are around are very valuable for tech companies that will pay higher salaries to have "token women", better if they are from some minority group, to show better diversity statistics. Therefore retention is also difficult. Finding good people in AI is already difficult and expansive, finding women is a real challenge.

I strongly believe that diversity brings a lot of value, and women are important in any team. But the solution unfortunately is not in the current market, but it is at school levels. Culture must change.

Eh, the gender imbalance is bad, but not 0/12 bad... here are some stats
- Those stats don't take into account the number of women that would want to work for Elon Musk.
- Nice stats, but it isn't broken down on industry. From experience (I worked in different fields) in some industries such as pharma, people analytics or marketing, women are even likely the majority (they were majority when I worked in pharma, for instance). In more "pure" tech and fintech companies, I do not believe those stats represent the "natural distribution". I know it's anecdotal, but trust me, it's not easy to find woman in AI in some industries. They are highly valued, well paid and have quick career progression because of this, to attract and retain them.
  
  That said, elon is probably "machist" type of guy, I am not defending him. Just trying to give a bit of context
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- Taking 89.3% men from your source at face value, and selecting 12 people at random, that gives a 12.2% chance (1 in 8) that the company of that size would be all male.
  Add in network effects, risk tolerance for startups, and the hiring practices of larger companies, and that number likely gets even larger.
  
  What's the p-value for a news story? Unless this is some trend from other companies run by Musk, there doesn't seem to be anything newsworthy here.
- but not 0/12 bad
  
  ... with a small enough sample size you could draw any conclusion, the article you linked had roughly 700 people included in the test, and we're drawing the conclusion that elon's business is discriminating against women, with 12 people being the data? Come on really? How have you ruled out coincidence?
If women only see men or almost only men in jobs they’re going to naturally assume they aren’t wanted in those fields. And let’s face it, as much as diversity is sought after women AREN’T wanted in tech by a really large portion of the gatekeeping dudes pulling the strings.

Like, sure, I believe you about the hiring challenges but this is an Elon Musk company - do you even think he tried? Did you see what happened to Twitter’s personnel diversity when he arrived?
- As said, I am not trying to defend him. He behaved extremely unprofessionally at Twitter.
  
  It was just to give a bit of context
Retention is indeed a problem. I don't think I qualify as a "woman in AI," but I am a cis woman who has trained (well, fine-tuned) my own models on my gaming PC at home as a hobby. Several years ago, I fucked off and became a professional photographer after working for a Fortune 50 for a decade; I loved my job but hated the sexism. There's almost no amount of money that could get me back to working in tech.

(Incidentally, a bunch of my images were scraped and used in the training data set for Stable Diffusion. I'm mad about this and have no desire to help corporations profit off others' art.)
- From my experience ML and data science in general are very welcoming to women and people with very different backgrounds. Also the way of working is very different. Agile doesn't really work, because is a non-deterministic world, you have relatively "long" projects, no PM chasing burndown (burnout) story points (or whatever those silly metrics are called), curious and interesting colleagues that are there for passion. You can give it a try. As said, in many industries, women in data science and ML are highly valued and unfortunately there are not enough of them.
half the machine learning people at my company are women, and while we've had more men in the past than women, women are far from vanishingly rare in the field. and none of them are "token women" who got their position through gender; they've all been intelligent and effective engineers who are good at their job.

What? That bastion of diversity and inclusion has a company that lacks diversity?

I would have thought it was all white men except for his love of people who desperately need to keep their work visas.

I would have thought it was all white men

Musk is going to hire people he feels "comfortable" around.

Musk was born and raised a rich male in apartheid South Africa, and he hasn't matured since leaving - 42069 amirite? tesla fart noises hahaha! tesla models S3XY!

He has been repeatedly accused of both racist and misogynistic behavior, of course he's going to "feel most comfortable" with white males. This is literally how glass ceilings are made.
- Maybe he has been accused of racist and misogynistic behavior because he is racist and misogynistic. I sure as hell have seen him share antisemitic, transphobic, misogynistic, and racist content on his personal Twitter account. He offered to buy an employee a horse if she would sleep with him, for fuck's sake.
  
  Glass ceilings are not made because a person is actually a victim of a smear campaign, they're made because a person wants to hold onto power without being held accountable for the shitty things they do.
  
  Don't be an apologist for racists and sexists. You know why Musk is most comfortable around white men. It's because he's an insecure racist and sexist piece of shit.

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Given the gender distribution of the software and ai fields it could be a coincidence however given elons track record it seems like a fair concern to raise. Often the beginning of an enterprise sets the tone of a companies culture and if it’s a toxic environment right now there’s little hope to change it in the future

Betcha the AI product never actually comes out.

Won't stop him from charging for it, if Tesla is any guide lol.

Given Musk's track record with sexual harassment, it is for the better.

What's really funny is, all of those profiles only have links to their Twitter accounts, but you can't see them unless you make a Twitter account yourself.