Building AI That Works for Everyone: AI Ethics for Technical People

From corporations to governments to private individuals, most of the AI community has recognized the growing need to incorporate ethics into the development and maintenance of AI models. Much of the current discussion, though, is meant for leaders and managers. This talk is directed to data scientists, data engineers, ML Ops specialists, and anyone else who is responsible for the hands-on, day-to-day of work building, productionalizing, and maintaining AI models. We’ll give a short overview of the business case for why technical AI expertise is critical to developing an AI Ethics strategy. Then we’ll discuss the technical problems that cause AI models to behave unethically, how to detect problems at all phases of model development, and the tools and techniques that are available to support technical teams in Ethical AI development.