The Company Road Podcast E29 Sarah Kaur - AI for good: The healthy intersection of AI and human
“The level of power that consumer facing Gen AI offers with such intuitive accessibility for such essentially a low cost for that high powered tool… is unprecedented.”
Sarah Kaur
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
AI as an enabler: How AI can be used to enable and empower unique work processes and scenarios, including key examples of how it it can enable design thinking and transformation work
Digital divide and inequity: Confronting the challenge of digital inequity and strategies for evening the playing field of technology across the workforce
AI's efficiency vs human value: Balancing the use of AI technology with traditional human work and where and how both are most valuable
ChatGPT in design workflows: Analysing how chatGPT has changed the approach to design, how it will continue to do so and how human participation and perspective must be recentered for continued value
AI upskilling and ‘Shadow AI’: How ‘Shadow AI’ is allowing for expanded creativity and creating opportunities for upskilling the workforce and why you should be taking advantage of it
Key Links
Max Kalis episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_fTrmruTPk
ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
Data61: https://research.csiro.au/data61/
Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
Lorraine Finlay, Australian Human Rights Commissioner: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commission-general/human-rights-commissioner-ms-lorraine-finlay
About our guest
Sarah Kaur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tamara-kaur/) is a Strategic Designer and Human-centred Design Researcher. Her passion is supporting the creative work of teams across disciplines to collaborate, and come up with smart ways to create impact through using participatory design. She now works as a Design Thinking Practitioner at CSIRO's Data61, where she focusses on research into Responsible AI, and embedding human insight in machine learning and AI research and product development.
She holds a Master of Business Analytics and a Bachelor in Fine Arts, and 12 years of professional experience supporting NFP, Government and Private organisations realise their business objectives by placing humans and quality data, at the centre of their decisions and investments.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in Innovation, CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders inter
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