Two Nvidia employees warned CEO Jensen Huang that artificial intelligence might be harmful to minorities, and one was so dissatisfied with his response that she quit shortly after, Bloomberg reported.

The Nvidia employees Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado told the outlet they met with Huang in 2020 to raise concerns from the company's employees about the dangers of AI, especially to minorities.

Both came away unsatisfied and left the company shortly afterward, Bloomberg reported. Allgood said she left because Nvidia "wasn't willing to lead in an area that was very important to me."

Tsado, a former product-marketing manager at Nvidia, said he wanted Huang to understand the importance of the issue.

"We're building these tools, and I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, this is not going to work for me because I'm Black,'' he said.

In the meeting, which Allgood described as the "most devastating 45 minutes of my professional life" in a post on LinkedIn, the two former presidents of the company's Black employees group warned that the unforeseen impacts of the new technology would be disproportionately felt by minority groups, Bloomberg reported. The duo spent a year collecting employee concerns about AI, the report said.

Allgood told the outlet she raised concerns that AI facial-recognition systems used in self-driving-car technology could pose a threat to minorities, with studies suggesting some facial-recognition technologies have more difficulty identifying people of color.

She said Huang pushed back on this, replying that self-driving vehicles could be tested on highways where they would pose less of a threat to pedestrians.

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