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#224 Professor Didar Zowghi - Move Fast and Fix Things: Why AI Needs Human-Centered Design
What if the biggest risk in AI isn't the technology itself, but building it without understanding the problem first?
Professor Didar Zowghi leads pioneering research on diversity and inclusion in AI at CSIRO's Data61. Her DNI guidelines were incorporated into Australia's national framework for AI in government in 2024. But her path to becoming a trailblazer in AI began unexpectedly, as a young woman from Tehran who couldn't study physics in the UK because her English wasn't good enough. Computer science, they told her, had its own language.
That "serendipitous path" led to decades of…
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