<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hi all, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">There was a great article in the NYTimes yesterday and this quote pretty much sums up why we're doing what we're doing: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">“But what I always think the way to turn anything around is to shine a light on it. You keep the light on there until the data surfaces, and then you have to find a way to fix it. It’s not a ‘check the box and move on, everyone take unconscious bias training and we’re all good now.’ You have to keep at it, keep at it, keep at it.” <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/artificial-intelligence-bias-tech.html?utm_content=94356284&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-1500835930233474">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/artificial-intelligence-bias-tech.html?utm_content=94356284&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-1500835930233474</a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/artificial-intelligence-bias-tech.html?utm_content=94356284&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-1500835930233474"> </a> </body> </html>