As she clicked through her slides, she explained that AI systems could combine their ability to recognize cars with their ability to make predictions to forecast things like voting patterns or household income. One venture capitalist there, a Tesla investor and friend of Elon Musk named Steve Jurvetson, was stunned, but not for the reasons Gebru was hoping. Think about how powerful this kind of data made Google and the kinds of insights it could make about different neighborhoods or towns. He was so impressed that he posted photos of Gebru’s talk to Facebook.
