Overview

Today’s guest is Alexandra Ebert,  Chief Trust Officer at MOSTLY AI. Alexandra’s work  focused on public policy issues in the emerging field of synthetic data and Ethical AI. In this conversation we discuss the importance of communication skills for data professionals, what synthetic data is and how it can assist in privacy and fairness, and wrap up by discussing the importance of open data for research, education, and policy. 

This episode is great for data leaders looking to increase the privacy practice of their data teams, and provides practitioners and consumers with insights on the current state of Ethical AI. 

About Alexandra Ebert 

Alexandra Ebert is a Responsible AI, synthetic data & privacy expert and serves as Chief Trust Officer at MOSTLY AI. As a member of the company's executive leadership team, she is engaged in public policy issues in the emerging field of synthetic data and Ethical AI and is responsible for engaging with the privacy community, with regulators, the media, and with customers. She regularly speaks at international conferences on AI, privacy, and digital banking and hosts The Data Democratization Podcast, where she discusses emerging digital policy trends as well as Responsible AI and privacy best practices with regulators, policy experts and senior executives.

Apart from her work at MOSTLY AI, she serves as the chair of the IEEE Synthetic Data IC expert group and was pleased to be invited to join the group of AI experts for the #humanAIze initiative, which aims to make AI more inclusive and accessible to everyone.

Before joining the company, she researched GDPR's impact on the deployment of artificial intelligence in Europe and its economic, societal, and technological consequences. Besides being an advocate for privacy protection, Alexandra is deeply passionate about Ethical AI and ensuring the fair and responsible use of machine learning algorithms. She is the co-author of an ICLR paper and a popular blog series on fairness in AI and fair synthetic data, which was featured in Forbes, IEEE Spectrum, and by distinguished AI expert Andrew Ng.

About MOSTLY AI:

MOSTLY AI developed the world's most accurate synthetic data platform: a game-changing new anonymization technology that empowers businesses to unlock their big data assets, without putting their customers' privacy at risk.

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