Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), new technology is reshaping business landscapes and creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation and growth. Professors Babu George and Ontario Wooden explore the transformative journey of African American entrepreneurs as they navigate the evolving AI era. Beginning with a conceptual analysis based on firsthand experiences with African American business leaders and supported by the existing literature, George and Wooden trace the historical trajectory of African American entrepreneurship, highlighting the resilience and ingenuity that have long defined this community. They examine critical aspects such as policy frameworks, financial strategies, educational initiatives, and the importance of networking within the AI ecosystem, underscoring the need for inclusive policies and accessible resources to ensure African American entrepreneurs can fully participate in and benefit from the AI revolution. At the heart of the discussion is AI’s role in bridging socioeconomic divides, equipping African American entrepreneurs with powerful tools to overcome systemic barriers and advance toward economic empowerment. Through micro-case studies, innovative insights, and actionable strategies, the book brings home the hope that digital divides and systemic inequities can be overcome successfully. AI Empowered concludes with a forward-looking perspective, envisioning a future where African American entrepreneurs lead AI-driven innovation. It calls for a collective effort to support these trailblazers and foster a diverse, dynamic entrepreneurial landscape that reflects the promise of the digital age.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.062 | 0.019 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".