Dr. Timnit Gebru was the co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI research team –until she raised concerns about bias in the company’s large language models and was forced out in 2020. Her departure sent shockwaves through the AI and tech community ad raised fundamental questions about how companies safeguard against bias in their own AI. Should in-house ethics resear ... Show More
Jul 8
At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure (Summer Repeat)
During a busy travel season, digital travel platform Booking.com tried a risky experiment that meant changing the site’s landing page. Then CEO Gillian Tans made the decision to lean into the company’s “test everything” culture—even if it meant failure. In this episode from 2019, ... Show More
26m 41s
Jun 24
Ensuring Boston Ballet Stays Relevant
Ming Min Hui, executive director of Boston Ballet, is unique in her field. As a young, Asian American woman with a HBS MBA and a background in finance, she focuses on ensuring the ballet company stays true to its art form and still relevant to its times. Hui had worked for eight ... Show More
30m 59s
Oct 2023
#157 Is AI an Existential Risk? With Trond Arne Undheim, Research Scholar in Global Systemic Risk at Stanford University
It's been almost a year since ChatGPT was released, mainstreaming AI into the collective consciousness in the process. Since that moment, we've seen a really spirited debate emerge within the data & AI communities, and really public discourse at large. The focal point of this deb ... Show More
47m 30s
Dec 2022
Ethical Use of AI in HR Tech with Emre Kazim, Holistic AI
In this HRchat episode, we delve into what constitutes robust AI management, how we can be more ethical with our use of AI-powered recruitment tech, and ask: Is it enough to audit recruitment algorithms for bias?
Our guest this time is Emre Kazim, co-founder of Holistic AI, a com ... Show More
24m 11s
Dec 2023
Impact of the “U.S. Executive Order on AI”
This TechWave podcast is based on Gartner’s research, The Impact of the “U.S. Executive Order on AI.”U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “EO”), which also underscores AI’s p ... Show More
39m 30s
Dec 2022
Ethical AI
In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in science, technology, engineering, and medicine from a highly theoretical perspective. In this episode, Alex hel ... Show More
22m 39s