Brené Brown Instagram – This is the third podcast in our series on living beyond human scale, and I have NOT stopped thinking about my conversation with Dr. S. Craig Watkins since we spoke last week. Our team got an early listen and we were blown away by Craig’s ability to walk us through what is known in the AI community as the “alignment problem” — who needs to be at the table in order to build systems that are aligned with our values as a democratic society?
He uses powerful examples about what happens when we start unleashing AI in high stakes environments like education, healthcare, and criminal justice. The question is: What guardrails, policies, and ethical principles do we need to make sure that we’re not scaling injustice?
Here’s one of the many, many quotes that shook me by the shoulders:
“If we’re going to build AI that matters — AI that impacts the world in a significant way — we’ve got to expand who’s contributing to that conversation and who’s driving how we design and deploy these systems. This is no longer a problem that’s adequately solved by just computer scientists or engineers. Doing that has gotten us to the point now where we see that that’s insufficient, inadequate, and increasingly indefensible.”
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