Transparency First: Make AI Worthy of Trust

👉 Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/758

Hosts: Mark Smith, Meg Smith

Ethical AI starts with transparency, accountability, and clear values. Mark and Meg unpack responsible AI principles, why non-deterministic systems still need reliability, and how ‘human in the loop’ and logging keep people accountable. They share a simple way to judge tools: trust, data use, terms that change, and clarity on training. You’ll see how to set personal and organisational boundaries, choose vendors, and schedule reviews as risks evolve. They also consider a public call to pause superintelligence, and argue for critical thinking over fear.

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🎙️ What you’ll learn
- Build an ethics checklist around transparency, fairness, reliability, privacy, inclusiveness, and accountability.
- Evaluate tools for training stance, data use, privacy, and changing terms.
- Design human-in-the-loop workflows with unique credentials, logging, and audit trails.
- Set personal and organisational boundaries for acceptable AI use.
- Plan a review cadence to reassess risks, mitigations, and vendor changes.

✅Highlights
“we're going to be squarely in the land of robotics very soon.”
“the intelligence age is so much more than just AI it is the age of intelligence”
“if you're an unethical individual, AI is probably going to amplify it.”
“there is no ethical AI without transparency.”
“people should be accountable for AI systems.”

🧰Mentioned
Microsoft Responsible AI principles https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/principles-and-approach#ai-principles
IBM AI course https://www.ibm.com/training/learning-paths
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@nz365guy
Roomba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roomba
Zoom TOS https://termly.io/resources/zoom-terms-of-service-controversy/

Connect with the hosts

Mark Smith:  
Blog https://www.nz365guy.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy

Meg Smith:  
Blog https://www.megsmith.nz
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/megsmithnz

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✅Keywords: 
responsible ai, ethical decision-making, transparency, accountability, fairness, privacy and security, non-deterministic, human in the loop, audit trail, intra id, superintelligence, terms

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Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith