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Topic

Diversity and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Diversity has particular salience to designers and developers of AI systems. As AI systems perform more and more tasks that formerly were the exclusive domain of human professionals, it will critical to design those systems in a manner that reflects the diversity of the societies in which they operate. Diversity in this sense certainly must start in the lab, but it cannot end there. The designers and developers of learning AI systems must also work to incorporate the interests and perspectives of the many stakeholders who could be affected by their systems’ operations and ensure that the datasets used to train their systems are representative of the relevant population. Because all AI systems are programmed with default modes of operation, designers and developers must consider and integrate these human, cultural, and systems dimensions of diversity from the very beginning. If they fail to do so, they risk creating systems whose default mode makes them irrelevant to excluded groups. Our panelists from industry, government and academia will share real life diversity successes as well as cautionary tales today and in the future if diversity if ignored.

Profile

Daniel Guillory is the Head of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Autodesk. At Autodesk, he is working to integrate all dimensions of diversity and inclusion into many parts of the organization including customer acquisition, recruitment, hiring, people development, advancement, investment and acquisition. He also is interested in the application of people analytics to different initiatives. Daniel was formerly CEO of Innovations International, a consulting firm that assists companies globally on leadership, innovation and diversity through assessment, strategic planning, learning & development, and internal communications. Daniel received his B.A. from Stanford University , his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and studied at the Universite de Paris I—Pantheon Sorbonne, along with the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. He is passionate about the integration of diversity into the development of Artificial Intelligence.