Five strategies for flourishing in a noisy and impersonal world — Do you consider yourself ‘sensitive’, or know someone who is? If you are unsure, do you see yourself in any of these descriptions?: Are you easily overwhelmed by bright lights, strong smells, coarse fabrics, or loud noises? Do you make a point of avoiding violent movies and TV shows? Do…

Put those data science Venn diagrams away. Yes all thirteen of them. — The ongoing great resignation that started in 2021, while gathering steam and backed by credible data, is nothing new in data science. Today is not about running explainability on why people are quitting. (We did this and bravely published our thoughts on how we think this can be done with…

Thanks for thinking about reducing friction on making AI ethics decisions Abhi! I was looking for perspectives on implementing AI ethics in practice that were not vendors or academics and I am not finding too many yet but would be keen to connect if there are. Our approach in embedding AI ethics into a large company is very much about taking lots of time to find the best place to hangs these prompts off - sometimes they are existing privacy assessments, other times tabling it with ethics committees, and there is a large chunk of IT-side software risk management processes, and so on. It is quite painful, but I am hoping to meet these other stakeholders where they are and how they work rather than stand up a separate AI ethics silo.

Avoiding the bait and switch of safety turning surveillance — As we grapple with adjusting to a post-Covid-19 world, a universally recurring theme across governments, statutory boards, private sector research and international organizations has been leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) in response to the pandemic. But the rapid rise of AI has produced a two-speed dynamic, where even…

Spoiler: If you are starting with requirements, think again — If you are a project manager, being assigned a data science or AI project may be a conflicting experience. AI alone is slated to create up to $2.9 trillion (yes with a ‘t’) in business value by 2021, and despite the overall damper of the coronavirus, remains on the forefront…

Leveraging ethical AI and human-centric product design to treat the chronic disease of the digital economy — Intertwined with the rapidly unfolding Coronavirus epidemic is an insidious infodemic which may prove no less deadly. In February 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, made first coined the term: “…we’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. …

As we come to the end 2019, we reflect on a year whose start already saw 100 machine learning papers published a day and its end looks to see a record breaking funding year for AI. But the path getting real value from data science and AI can be a…