Latest / The Road to Accountable AI / Diya Wynn: People-Centric Technology
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- 0:01Dear welcome.
- 0:02You were, as I understand it, the first AI ethicist or responsible AI person at AWS.
- 0:09So how did you find your way into that kind of a role?
- 0:13Well, I'd say first, like, formal...
- 0:17in that context, but there were certainly other people before me doing work in other
- 0:22capacities in the organization focused on sort of ethical and responsible AI.
- 0:27But specifically that title and function was developed in our professional services
- 0:36organization.
- 0:38And interestingly enough, probably, I guess about five years ago, a little bit
- 0:43over five years ago, I started this internal camp
- 0:48I thought that we had an opportunity to be able to assess the tens of thousands, now
- 0:54hundreds of thousands of customers that we're building on top of our AI ML
- 0:57services.
- 0:59It's just them in a way that we do with like our cloud.
- 1:03We have something called Well -Architected and it's a set of practices and sort of a
- 1:09structure around pillars that give people the foundational information that they
- 1:14would need to build.
- 1:16and take full advantage of the capacity and all the capabilities of the cloud.
- 1:21And my thought was that we have the benefit of our experience using AI and
- 1:28implementing that for Amazon in various capacities for a number of years.
- 1:34All of the expertise of the...
- 1:37probably hundreds, thousands of data scientists that are helping to build our
- 1:41services.
- 1:42And those that are working in research areas and like Amazon Science and our
- 1:47scholars that we could bring all of that together in a way to be able to assist our
- 1:52customers with understanding the risk and having the best sort of insight to be able
- 1:59to address that.
- 2:01So we have this culture at Amazon, which is we call thinking big and writing a
- 2:06narrative, basically a proposal.
- 2:08And that's exactly what I did.
- 2:09So I wrote a narrative with the things that I believed were going to provide the
- 2:16best support for us to lean in and respond to our customers in this way.
- 2:21I will tell you at the time we didn't have as much customer demand and a lot of our
- 2:26innovation comes from that, you know, from our customers.
- 2:30this was a little bit more forward leaning or forward thinking in that we were seeing
- 2:36some increased conversations around the need for ethical AI.
- 2:41That was the term at the time.
- 2:44And it felt like we have an opportunity to be able to lean in and provide support and
- 2:49assistance for our customers given their expertise and all of the knowledge.
- 2:52So it took a little bit to find the right organization internally that would sponsor
- 2:58the work.
- 2:58But...
- 2:59I started our first customer facing practice on responsible AI and that's sort
- 3:04of where that all began.
- 3:07So how do you work with customers?
- 3:10As I assume they've got their own initiatives and their own business needs,
- 3:14and AWS is the cloud provider that they're using.
- 3:19What are the kinds of issues that you get into with them?
- 3:22So it varies.
- 3:25One is we'd have customers that would be looking for some sort of guidance.
- 3:31They had some familiarity or awareness of this need for responsible AI or ethical
- 3:36AI.
- 3:37They wanted to understand what we were doing internally in the company.
- 3:41And so that would be an inquiry that they made through their sales team or other
- 3:45folks on their account.
- 3:46team.
- 3:47Sometimes it was directly with our professional services resources where they
- 3:52saw an opportunity that they believed would be best suited for us to be engaged.
- 3:58I would venture to say at the beginning that you know there was some discretion.
- 4:03is this a use case that we should have some other oversight in or some other
- 4:09support with?
- 4:10And then there would be some outreach from our perspective in the initial stages
- 4:16where we were looking at customers in certain industries that we felt would be
- 4:20much more amenable to these conversations around responsible AI.
- 4:27I've made a bit of a pivot in terms of...
- 4:30like that initial structure and certainly what we've seen over the course of the
- 4:35last year or so helped to make that pivot and shift as well because one, my firm
- 4:42belief is that there shouldn't be any AI without responsible AI, without the
- 4:48accountability and the intentional focus on understanding risk and seeking to
- 4:54mitigate those and address those.
- 4:56But what happened with...
- 4:58sort of the generative AI now being in the hands of so many individuals and some of
- 5:04its public challenges or the challenges that were made public, that's helped
- 5:10others to now seek out much more our assistance and understanding of how we can
- 5:18be much more diligent in our work and what things they can do to protect their data
- 5:22and.
- 5:24And so our work would be educational just in terms of general awareness.
- 5:28One person may know or have some context and wants to make sure that they can
- 5:33expand that to their entire team.
- 5:36The other would be strategic advisory and then implementation support.
- 5:41So those were sort of the three sort of broad areas that we would end up engaging
- 5:46with customers as well as helping them understand what we.
- 5:49we're doing as an organization and our commitment to responsible AIs that they
- 5:53have some context for.
- 5:55What are we seeing?
- 5:56What are we doing?
- 5:57And then how do we step in and do this as well?
- 6:01Yeah, could you say a little bit more about that?
- 6:02How does the internal work of AI accountability or responsibility in AWS
- 6:09and Amazon relate to what you do engage with customers?
- 6:12Yeah, so very much related.
- 6:14We have established a four -part strategy in order to drive our commitment to
- 6:22responsible AI and institutionalize that in the organization.
- 6:27And that four -part strategy looks like one helping, well, I often start off with
- 6:34one that is later in the context of our slides.
- 6:37but it's having a people -centered focus.
- 6:40And that people -centric of focus or approach helps us extend beyond just
- 6:45looking at technology, but also incorporating people, process, and culture
- 6:50to help make the shift so that responsible AI becomes an integral part of the
- 6:55culture.
- 6:56It also means that we are committing to doing the work that's necessary given our
- 7:00understanding of the risks and the ways in which that it can affect marginalized and
- 7:04underserved populations.
- 7:06or underrepresented populations that we increase the value in building diverse
- 7:11teams, incorporating their voice and perspective into how we're establishing
- 7:18and developing products to ensure that they're fair and inclusive.
- 7:22So that looks like us investing in scholarship programs, our machine learning
- 7:29course.
- 7:31a partnership with HBCUs and Hispanic serving institutions in order to provide
- 7:37education.
- 7:39And then we have something like our AI ready program that or initiative that
- 7:43where we committed to training 29 million individuals in AI by the year 2025.
- 7:53Then the other part of the strategy is,
- 7:56taking a holistic approach to building our AI services responsibly.
- 8:01And so that's incorporating responsible AI into every aspect of the machine learning
- 8:05lifecycle, from how we make decisions about the technology at the leadership
- 8:10level into design, development, and deploying, as well as ongoing use.
- 8:15And that kind of goes in line with the idea that we don't.
- 8:21want responsible AI to be a separate workstream, but integrated into the way
- 8:25that we build our services and ultimately how we're doing our business.
- 8:32And then it is helping our customers transform responsible AI from theory to
- 8:41practice.
- 8:41And that's essentially what we do or part of what we do, my teams or the team that
- 8:47we're customer facing as well as.
- 8:50other teams in the organization, it is our ability to be able to give guidance as
- 8:56well as resources and tooling to be able to incorporate responsible AI into their
- 9:02practice, essentially operationalizing responsible AI.
- 9:05So that may be the team of responsible AI practitioners and consultants or experts
- 9:11that will come to partner with our customers.
- 9:15to provide education as well as awareness, as well as support as far as how they're
- 9:21implementing specific services, like helping them understand how to detect bias
- 9:26with something like SageMaker Clarify or looking at privacy preserving techniques.
- 9:31And then the last bit of this is our ongoing investment in responsible AI
- 9:40research, advancing the science of responsible AI.
- 9:44And that's important because there are still challenges or areas where we don't
- 9:50have all of the answers to.
- 9:52We're constantly innovating and technology is also advancing at a rapid pace.
- 9:58It requires a sort of constant evolution and expanding and advancing the science to
- 10:04stay up with that, but also to find new novel approaches to some of the challenges
- 10:11and be able to take that.
- 10:13ongoing research and innovation into how we're building and ultimately the kind of
- 10:20support and assistance that we're giving to our customers.
- 10:23So that looks like some of our integration with National Science Foundation and we
- 10:29have a Fairness in AI grants program where we've invested $20 million, strategic
- 10:35partnerships with like California Institute of Technology as well as.
- 10:41engaging in standards bodies, et cetera.
- 10:43So that is the kind of insight that helps to inform the, again, the work that we're
- 10:49doing in terms of building our services, but also what we're doing in terms of
- 10:53providing support and assistance to our customers.
- 10:55And so that's the overall strategy that helps drive all of the internal work in
- 11:03the organization.
- 11:05You mentioned the evolution in the increase you're getting from companies.
- 11:10I'm curious how much at this point, when you're working with customers, is, OK,
- 11:16here's the template.
- 11:17If you want to be responsible AI, you've got to do the following eight things and
- 11:21just check them off versus really having to be more of a bespoke conversation and
- 11:28distinctive kinds of issues they're facing.
- 11:30Well, so we tried to develop a structure in terms of helping us guide conversations
- 11:37and engagement with customers.
- 11:39Because just like you've seen pillars of responsible AI or principles that
- 11:46different organizations have established, all of those provide a framework for being
- 11:51able to unpack where there are areas of risk and to help us be intentional in
- 11:56considering.
- 11:57you know, who's incorporated and how we're building the system and addressing the
- 12:01proposed risks.
- 12:03So that structure for us is really what helps us guide the conversation, but it
- 12:07does end up being somewhat bespoke in the sense that not every customer is at the
- 12:13same degree of maturity and their unique, their needs might be different.
- 12:20So, you know, we've had an opportunity to sit with a customer who was at the very
- 12:24early stages.
- 12:26that conversation or engagement with them was one, just focus on training and
- 12:31education.
- 12:32What do we do to help our teams and developers understand our commitment to
- 12:37responsible AI, our commitment to AI overall?
- 12:41And that was in part like building out a learning path and strategy for how we
- 12:51incorporate general AI training.
- 12:56into the organization so that they understand commitment somewhat like some
- 13:00of the compliance, security compliance and information security kind of training, but
- 13:05then also equipping people at different stages of their product development cycle
- 13:10with knowledge and understanding of what they should be thinking about and how.
- 13:13And then it was also like helping them develop their own set of tenants or...
- 13:21or guardrails for what responsible AI looked like for them and their
- 13:25organization.
- 13:26And again, that sort of baseline work happens with some organizations.
- 13:31And then others, we had a customer that came to us that had already created their
- 13:36own principles and had a certain structure.
- 13:38They really wanted to now get into tools and wanted to understand what things that
- 13:42we have available that could help support them in that.
- 13:45And fortunately, in our early stages, we had, I'll say, I'm probably.
- 13:51A handful is not accurate.
- 13:53There are a number of different tools because there are things that we're doing
- 13:56in MLOps that support different areas of responsible AI as well in terms of its
- 14:04automation or being able to look at performance and measure, right?
- 14:07But then also adding on additional capability like the things that have
- 14:12evolved with our being able to establish model cards in SageMaker or...
- 14:19you know, detect for bias and have explainability.
- 14:21Those are additional tools that now are services that now round out, you know, a
- 14:26good, I think robust set of services that help support customers as they're
- 14:30implementing.
- 14:32Yeah, let me drill down on that issue of bias and fairness.
- 14:35As you say, there are a variety of tools out there where you can do an analysis,
- 14:40look at your training data, look at your model performance and so forth.
- 14:43But how far along do you think we are in terms of organizations really seriously
- 14:49and effectively addressing that challenge?
- 14:52So this is, I think it's twofold.
- 14:57I think you're absolutely right.
- 14:58We have tools that are helping organizations understand bias in their
- 15:06algorithms and or their data of themselves.
- 15:10There's an element of this.
- 15:11And I remember, I think it was a 2019 AI Now study that said, the problem with or
- 15:18the challenge with AI systems is,
- 15:22is a diversity problem, right?
- 15:24Essentially, some of that challenge is because of the lack of diversity, the lack
- 15:31of those that are underrepresented to see and help evaluate the data differently or
- 15:37to help provide a different perspective as we're evaluating some of our challenges.
- 15:42So I think that's one element of it.
- 15:44But the part that I wanted to get to in particular was around the notion that we
- 15:49as human beings have bias, right?
- 15:51And we're the ones building the systems.
- 15:53But that actually wasn't the AI Now study.
- 15:55That was something that came out of Gartner that said 85 % of the projects up
- 15:59till I think it was 2023 would have erroneous outcomes due to bias in the
- 16:05people themselves, bias in the data, as well as in the algorithms.
- 16:11And so we've got to be able to address or look at ways to be able to tackle all of
- 16:16those.
- 16:17How do we...
- 16:19address challenges with the bias that we bring to a problem and the way that we
- 16:27design a system.
- 16:29The diversity helps to support that, but then also understanding that.
- 16:33And then putting in systems and structure and process so that we could hopefully
- 16:38unpack and eliminate our own individual bias and have a much more objective view
- 16:42as we are evaluating things.
- 16:44And so I would say that I think we're taking steps in the right direction.
- 16:49The tools are essential to being able to support us in that process.
- 16:54The process is necessary as well as us coming in alignment and seeing the value
- 16:59and importance of doing that kind of work and making sure that we're considering the
- 17:04voice and perspective of those so that we can eliminate areas of bias.
- 17:09And then there's this bit where we likely will have bias at some level in systems
- 17:15all the time.
- 17:16And what do we do in terms of making different decisions given the context and
- 17:21awareness of bias in our data perhaps, right?
- 17:26Or systemic and institutional bias that might be infiltrated.
- 17:31How do we then evaluate how we're releasing a product?
- 17:34What does that look like in deployment?
- 17:36And those are conversations that we're starting to have a lot more because of
- 17:42this sort of move and direction.
- 17:44I think those are all.
- 17:46good things that are getting us further along.
- 17:50What do those conversations look like?
- 17:52Or, you know, you probably can't give a specific example with a particular
- 17:56company, but you posed a bunch of really good questions there about things to think
- 18:01about, but how do you help a customer actually work through what they need to do
- 18:06for bias and fairness?
- 18:08Yeah, so I'll kind of talk through the framework a little bit.
- 18:13And we often start off with a value alignment in terms of like, how well is
- 18:19this specific use case that we're considering aligned to our values with the
- 18:24output of such, infringe on or not be in alignment with our values.
- 18:30I've used this example a lot, but I think it's one of the best ones to articulate
- 18:36this.
- 18:36And this was with.
- 18:37you know, someone who was responsible for serving a certain population and, you
- 18:45know, gaining information or intelligence, you know, from calls could have, could
- 18:52mean that they violated their, their, you know, core tenets in terms of their, their
- 19:01ideals or their mission, right?
- 19:02And so,
- 19:03For us, it was more of a question of how would this use case align with your car
- 19:07values?
- 19:07Does this support your mission, vision, and values, any of the things that are
- 19:13regulatory, et cetera, that you have to comply with?
- 19:16Then it's about inclusion.
- 19:18And one of the things that we do when we talk about inclusion is not just do we
- 19:24have diversity at the table, because that's often been a challenge in terms of
- 19:29bringing in resources,
- 19:32broadly in organizations, we still are struggling with that.
- 19:37But how do we bring in that voice and perspective?
- 19:39And so a couple of the things that we would use is certainly like looking at
- 19:42personas and identifying those.
- 19:44Are we considering all stakeholders, not just 80 % of them?
- 19:49And then also looking at, have we thought about anti -personas?
- 19:54Who do we intend not to serve?
- 19:55Because that's often where unintended impact occurs.
- 19:58And so that would be another opportunity for us to think about and consider.
- 20:02We actually mean this for this particular population, and we don't want to harm
- 20:08others, even though we're not considering them one of our primary customers.
- 20:13Then it's looking at things around training and education.
- 20:18How are we equipping those that are responsible for building the systems or
- 20:22any part of the product lifecycle with the knowledge and awareness that they need to
- 20:25know, as well as what do we do?
- 20:27in an organization where we might be introducing systems that have to be
- 20:32integrated into work and augment the workforce?
- 20:36Or what responsibility does that organization have to consider those
- 20:39things?
- 20:40And then we'll also then step through the other areas of the process.
- 20:43And I know I won't go into all of those, but then transparency, accountability is
- 20:48one.
- 20:48Like, are we thinking about roles and responsibilities?
- 20:51Who will help us understand?
- 20:55What are the next steps to take?
- 20:56How do we look at the specific use case, understand its risk and impact, and then
- 21:03have the appropriate human oversight as necessary?
- 21:09Transparency and explainability.
- 21:12Then we look at privacy and security, privacy, security, and safety, and then,
- 21:17and of course, fairness, right?
- 21:19And the fairness is the technical sort of...
- 21:21approach to ensuring that we have the appropriate behaviors that we want across
- 21:26the system consistently irrespective of any subgroup or demographic.
- 21:31And that element is important for us to be able to define at the beginning because
- 21:36making this sort of commitment to building responsibility responsibly requires that
- 21:42we think about this in design, right?
- 21:45And...
- 21:46and not just as an afterthought.
- 21:49Like after we've designed the system, then we try to run some tests and look at F1
- 21:53scores and hope that we've got the right result.
- 21:56It's ultimately like defining what is fair for this particular use case and having
- 22:00that integrate throughout the entire system is the goal.
- 22:05So what exactly does that mean, designing it in from the beginning?
- 22:14I'm sorry, I lost you for a moment.
- 22:16I didn't...
- 22:16that's right.
- 22:16And we can just edit out if we something like this.
- 22:18And yeah, I know that the one or whatever came up as we were talking there, but
- 22:22that's fine.
- 22:24What exactly does it look like in concrete terms to design in fairness from the
- 22:29beginning of the process?
- 22:30What are the things that an organization would need to do in order to achieve that?
- 22:34it's actually thinking about, so it's in part like thinking about the customers
- 22:38that we want to serve, but it's also thinking about what would be an
- 22:42appropriate outcome that's going to meet the needs of both or all demographics.
- 22:49So if I am building something that we want to make sure is providing benefit or
- 22:54service to an aging population, right?
- 23:00Making sure that we're respected if it's supposed to support.
- 23:04people of a certain age, right?
- 23:06So we're gonna say seniors, for instance.
- 23:08I've been dealing with that quite a bit with my family.
- 23:10So with my aging father, but you know, looking at like a specific service is
- 23:19going to benefit them.
- 23:21Then we would want to also say, well, well, aging has some cross sections,
- 23:26right?
- 23:26The aging population has some cross sections.
- 23:28Do we consider?
- 23:30what that performance might look like for people who are aging across different
- 23:33demographics.
- 23:34How do we think about people who are, who have different, who might be a different
- 23:40ability, right, or might be disabled?
- 23:42They're still part of the aging population.
- 23:44And so I have to look at those cross -sections as well, and then define what
- 23:47would be the appropriate system outcome, right, across those, so that we're
- 23:53defining that and then integrating that into how we build the design.
- 23:56So at the end,
- 23:57If our system is not actually producing the right outcome that we've defined here,
- 24:01then we get to reevaluate that or make determinations about, well, again, did we
- 24:07meet the measure and fulfill the requirements ultimately desired for the
- 24:11system?
- 24:13So let me pull back a bit.
- 24:15How do you define success when you're working with a customer on one of these
- 24:19engagements?
- 24:22Well, it'll vary some in terms of...
- 24:34to do it lose again.
- 24:36Yeah, I heard the lawn mower again.
- 24:39So never.
- 24:41Now that's right.
- 24:42Yeah, you can go and I can ask you a question again, or you can just go ahead
- 24:45and start the answer again.
- 24:47No foul.
- 24:48in the response, so I paused for a moment.
- 24:50And I'm sorry, you'll have to cut this through a little bit.
- 24:53fine.
- 24:53Now I've got an editor, he'll do that.
- 24:55Okay, so it will depend on what we're actually doing, right?
- 25:00So in the context of something that is educational, it's looking at over time,
- 25:05the percentage of individuals that we've reached in terms of educational content
- 25:09and how that's informed the work that they do, right?
- 25:12So that's fairly standard.
- 25:13And when I say informed, right, if we are helping, you know, the developers now use
- 25:20tools that are helping with detecting bias, as we were just talking about that.
- 25:25how many of them are actually using that now, using those tools and making them an
- 25:30active part of their job and responsibility versus just occasionally
- 25:35using it or not using it at all.
- 25:36What percentage of those are now adopting the tools that are going to help benefit
- 25:40them?
- 25:41So that could be one, right, from an education perspective.
- 25:43But if it's something strategic, it's actually looking at how well we've defined
- 25:50the...
- 25:53principles or tenants that they might be leveraging, how those get integrated into
- 25:57the organization, looking at a bit of a sort of organizational change management
- 26:02process and how that gets implemented and creating measures across the board.
- 26:09With implementation and with it's going to be something much more technical, if we're
- 26:14again talking about bias, actually measuring before and after in terms of a
- 26:19process, if we are now
- 26:23re -evaluating a system that might have been already functioning and then what
- 26:27that looks like in the end because now we're introducing bias detection tools and
- 26:33mitigation techniques.
- 26:36Ultimately, it's ensuring that when we look to address issues of risk, that those
- 26:42risks have been mitigated and we have a way to be able to track those.
- 26:47And you've been doing this for, as you said, a number of years now.
- 26:49Are there mistakes along the way that you've learned from or ways that you've
- 26:54evolved the way that you think about doing this kind of?
- 26:58Absolutely, I think.
- 27:00So one of the first things that come to mind is when we first started this ethical
- 27:05AI was the conversation at DeJour and while there was a lot in marketplace in
- 27:13terms of ethical AI, when we got into conversations or when we were trying to
- 27:18approach customers, that actually was a bit of a turnoff in some ways, right?
- 27:24There was sometimes a visceral reaction to the idea that
- 27:28ethical, like we were passing judgment or making some assertion about their moral
- 27:34values, et cetera, because of a particular use case.
- 27:37And that's not actually the role that we wanted to take.
- 27:41So we pivoted early from conversations around ethical AI to responsible AI.
- 27:46I think our outcomes are still ultimately the same.
- 27:50And we've used a number of these terms interchangeably.
- 27:54But it meant a
- 27:56It meant for us being able to meet our customers at a different place and remove
- 28:01some of the initial resistance that might have occurred or did occur in some cases
- 28:05so that we could have a conversation.
- 28:08This notion of responsible AI is very much our responsibility is also very much in
- 28:12alignment with discussions that we have from a cloud perspective.
- 28:17We have a responsibility model and people understand that there's a role that we
- 28:22play as a provider of technology, but there's also a role that they have.
- 28:26in being able to, you know, protect.
- 28:33There's a role that we have as far as providers of technology, but there's a
- 28:36role that customer has as well as the builder and deployer of that technology.
- 28:41And so this conversation around Responsible AI was certainly one that I
- 28:44think was much more amenable to our customers, but also gave us an opportunity
- 28:48to meet them much more where they are.
- 28:51I think the other is to think that we could have this grand set of tenants
- 29:01and...
- 29:02this framework and perhaps that everyone would take all of those and start to
- 29:07integrate them fully.
- 29:09And understanding where people were in terms of their maturity was important.
- 29:13So we had some customers initially that may have only done something around
- 29:18education awareness and didn't necessarily step into using every tool or service and
- 29:26addressing all of these pieces, but that understanding that this is a journey.
- 29:30There are none of us that...
- 29:32have, I think, arrived fully and have addressed everything that we can, but that
- 29:37we're making steps in the right direction.
- 29:38And so depending on where that organization is, as far as their maturity
- 29:44and use of AI and deploying those things into production, it will dictate in some
- 29:51ways what they take on as far as the principles.
- 29:55And we had to certainly adjust our perspective about that because.
- 30:00I would love that everyone would do all of the things, right?
- 30:03But that's not a reality.
- 30:05And I think the other is just recognizing that those trade -offs that we make with
- 30:14how much we're investing in responsible AI and where that slows us down and what we
- 30:23can prioritize given timeframes is very real.
- 30:26And we've had to certainly...
- 30:29you know, help figure out where it makes sense to invest, given a certain use case,
- 30:35and others, you know, perhaps not so because you had these competing business
- 30:42priorities.
- 30:44One thing that's also changed is now there's this flood of either regulation or
- 30:49frameworks or proposed obligations and laws that are relevant to AI and
- 30:55responsible AI.
- 30:56Does that make your job easier or harder?
- 30:59I think it makes it harder.
- 31:01Well, actually, I think it makes it easier.
- 31:05I'm going to say that in the sense that where our initial start with responsible
- 31:11AI was in some ways relying on people's will and desire to do good, to incorporate
- 31:22these principles and to develop these practices internally.
- 31:27And while there are customers
- 31:29and companies for sure that are committed to doing good and not doing harm, again,
- 31:36that business prioritization and the lack of necessity to necessarily invest could
- 31:46help or could allow them to de -prioritize some of those areas of focus.
- 31:53And what...
- 31:55What legislation and some of the standards now has done is elevate the importance of
- 32:02these, you know, beyond just one organization or a few advocates making
- 32:07this demand, but seeing it across the board in, you know, governments, you know,
- 32:13White House, executive order, et cetera.
- 32:16But it's also adding the reinforcement, right, or we'll have, you know, some of
- 32:21that.
- 32:22reinforcement where it's a now and we can't ignore it.
- 32:26It really is a business imperative and these areas are drawing people much more
- 32:34to the conversation.
- 32:36So last thing is, what do you, what do you focus on going forward or what do you
- 32:40think are the greatest challenges in the next few years for organizations trying to
- 32:47think about responsibility.
- 32:50Well, that is, who knows what's going to happen in the next few years, but I'll
- 32:56tell you what I think about a lot.
- 33:00And it's an area of excitement, in one sense, the great opportunity that we have
- 33:06with AI.
- 33:07In some ways, we are looking at technology and opportunity for us to hopefully create
- 33:14more equitable experiences and access, right?
- 33:17That is a hope.
- 33:20It requires a lot of intentional focus from organizations to build in these
- 33:27practices, to make that integral in the way that they're not just designing, but
- 33:31also deploying these systems.
- 33:33I think the other thing is just to be conscious and aware of while technology
- 33:39has the ability to do a lot of things, some things we probably should keep off
- 33:44limits.
- 33:45Right?
- 33:45And how do we balance that?
- 33:47Because there's such excitement and consideration for all of the things that
- 33:53it can do.
- 33:54But I think that there are some things that it probably shouldn't do.
- 33:58And us still balancing this great opportunity, all that the advancement of
- 34:06technology can bring while preserving humanity.
- 34:09All right, well, that's an encouraging, challenging, but overall positive way to
- 34:16wrap up.
- 34:17Dia, thank you so much for joining me on the road to accountable AI.
- 34:20Thank you as well for having me.