Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett says AI skepticism can be a strength

Fast Company Tech
Generative AI

For than a decade, the nonprofit Girls Who Code has sought to help prepare young women for jobs in the tech industry and push for greater gender parity in computer science. The arrival of artificial intelligence, though, promises a new era of organization, one that involves wrestling with student pessimism about the technology - and a shift in what it even means to code. To say the least, many young graduates aren’t excited about working with AI.