How AI is Transforming Tech Careers for Black Professionals
Earn Your Leisure
EYL Network
4.8 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this clip, join Rashad Bilal, Troy Millings, and Morgan Debaun as they dive into how artificial intelligence and robotics are rapidly changing the tech industry—especially for Black professionals. Morgan, founder of AfroTech, shares eye-opening perspectives on the growing skills gap, the critical role of innovation, and why embracing new technology is now more vital than ever.
The conversation covers:
- The accelerating pace of AI disruption in tech
- Challenges and opportunities for Black professionals entering and thriving in the industry
- How AfroTech connects talent and companies to close labor gaps
- What the next 2-5 years could mean if communities don’t adapt
- The importance of risk-taking and continuous learning
Whether you’re already in tech or considering making the leap, this clip offers powerful advice on staying ahead of the curve, building relevant skills, and seizing opportunities in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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| 0:57.0 | I want to start with tech. We just, I'm talking about tech. |
| 0:59.0 | You have, you have AfroTech, right? |
| 1:01.0 | So AfroTech is a convention, right, for people that's interested in technology, |
| 1:09.0 | people that's in technology, right? Black people. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:12.6 | How do you see this landscape changing as far as artificial intelligence and all of these robotics? |
| 1:22.9 | How is this changing in real time and how is that impacting black people that's in technology and black people that's trying to get into technology? |
| 1:34.7 | Yeah, so Africa Tech started 10 years ago. |
| 1:37.7 | I started my career in Silicon Valley working at Intuit, which is a company that has huge monopoly on like TurboTax and so many other products, |
| 1:47.0 | QuickBooks. And what we've seen over time is that these companies are very good at evolving. |
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