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An AI firm is making waves in Silicon Valley with a groundbreaking innovation: hiring based on merit instead of race.
Rather than DEI, Scale AI is implementing MEI — merit, excellence and intelligence. “We do not unfairly stereotype, tokenize, or otherwise treat anyone as a member of a demographic group rather than as an individual,” its CEO wrote on X.
Today we’ve formalized an important hiring policy at Scale. We hire for MEI: merit, excellence, and intelligence.
This is the email I’ve shared with our @scale_AI team.
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MERITOCRACY AT SCALE
In the wake of our fundraise, I’ve been getting a lot of questions…
— Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) June 13, 2024
This announcement joins a string of apparent shifts to the Right in the tech world of late. David Sacks is fundraising for Trump, Mark Zuckerberg is doing MMA and homesteading, and a VC announced a massive donation to Trump in a lengthy X post detailing his “radicalization”. We’re not holding our breath for Google to join the fray.
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