It is crucial for AI tech to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion because it cannot think for itself, therefore all of the knowledge it gets is from humans and how they program AI to work and the things it compiles from what is posted online. Having these principles can positively impact AI development and the broader societal implications because it means that if AI will be able to provide unbiased information and prioritize being inclusive, then more people will be exposed to different knowledge and information created by different people. Many people today have unconscious biases that are given to them by their parents, the media, their friends and even from school that it’s hard to uncover what your real beliefs are, but AI doesn’t have parents, or friends and it doesn’t go to school. It just starts existing and all of it’s knowledge is what’s posted online and if the person programming AI is biased towards someone/something then the results will be based on that persons bias and not an objective view of everything that’s been posted. If the results AI provides are biased, the things you can create with AI will have limitations since it can’t just create, but it has to create based on certain parameters.