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AI & Data Today
The top podcast for those wanting no-hype, practical, real-world insight into what enterprises, public sector agencies, thought leaders, leading technology companies, pundits, and experts are doing with AI today.
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Sep 21, 2022 • 24min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI Auditability, Traceability, and System Control
In order to have people use AI systems they need to feel that they can trust these systems. That includes putting measures in place around AI Auditability, Traceability, and System Control. But what exactly does that mean and how do you do this in the context of your Ethical and Responsible AI Framework? In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues related to AI Auditability, Traceability, and System Control, why it’s important to be transparent with users, and what steps and controls you should have in place.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI Auditability, Traceability, and System Control at Cognilytica.

Sep 14, 2022 • 33min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI System Transparency
When building Ethical and Responsible AI systems it’s important to think about AI System Transparency. These are ethical principles that focus on giving human users as much visibility into overall system behavior, including issues of visibility into data and AI configuration, appropriate disclosure and user consent, means for gaining visibility into bias and potential mitigation of that bias, and use of open systems.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI System Transparency at Cognilytica.

Sep 7, 2022 • 24min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Disclosure & Consent
In order to have people use AI systems they need to feel that they can trust these systems. That includes when they system provides an answer they may not want to hear. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues related to AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Disclosure & Consent including why it’s important to disclose to users they are interacting with an AI, why it’s important to be transparent with users, and what steps you should consider to have users provide consent.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Disclosure & Consent at Cognilytica.

Aug 31, 2022 • 21min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI & Data Privacy
If data is the heart of AI, then it should come as no surprise that data privacy plays a big role in building ethical and responsible AI systems. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues related to AI and data privacy, why it’s important to stay up to date on these topics, how they can impact your project, and additional factors that need to be taken into consideration when building trustworthy AI systems.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI & Data Privacy at Cognilytica.

Aug 24, 2022 • 19min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI Safety & Security
AI systems have the potential to provide great value, but also the potential to cause great harm. Knowing how to build or use AI systems is simply not going to be enough. You need to know how to build, use, and interact with these systems ethically and responsibly. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer discuss issues that related to AI safety and security and why building trustworthy AI is critical for the success of the project.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI Safety & Security at Cognilytica.

Aug 17, 2022 • 37min
AI Today Podcast: AI in Construction – Interview with René Morkos, CEO of ALICE Technologies
Construction companies are increasingly using AI in a range of ways to tackle a number of challenges. From optimizing work schedules to improving workplace safety to keeping a secure watch on construction facilities, AI in the construction industry is already producing value. One such company, ALICE Technologies, is focused on a different challenge: scheduling. In this podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview with René Morkos, CEO of ALICE Technologies and Adjunct Professor at Stanford.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: AI in Construction – Interview with René Morkos, CEO of ALICE Technologies at Cognilytica.

Aug 10, 2022 • 28min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI & Data Fairness & Bias
Organizations are increasingly making use of AI systems to power their operations and enable a wide range of applications from the trivial to the mission-critical. As a result it’s more important than ever to understand the many complex issues related to AI and Data fairness and bias. In this Ethical and Responsible AI Series hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer dig deeper into the role data plays in AI, and how building AI systems with fairness in mind is critical.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: AI & Data Fairness & Bias at Cognilytica.

Aug 3, 2022 • 27min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: The Layers of Ethical AI & A Framework for Ethical & Responsible AI
Organizations are increasingly making use of AI systems to power their operations and enable a wide range of applications from the trivial to the mission-critical. Many of the concepts of AI ethics generally revolve around the set of what is “right” vs “wrong” with regards to intelligent systems. However, the sort of ethical concepts that are discussed in AI ethics frameworks tend to cluster around five different areas including: Societal Ethical AI, Responsible AI, Trustworthy AI, AI Governance, and Interpretable and Explainable AI.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: The Layers of Ethical AI & A Framework for Ethical & Responsible AI at Cognilytica.

Jul 27, 2022 • 25min
AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Why is Ethical & Responsible AI Necessary?
AI systems have the potential to provide great value, but also the potential to cause great harm. Knowing how to build or use AI systems is simply not going to be enough. You need to know how to build, use, and interact with these systems ethically and responsibly. As more organizations adopt AI technologies the need to do AI ethically and responsibly is becoming incredibly important.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Ethical & Responsible AI Series: Why is Ethical & Responsible AI Necessary? at Cognilytica.

Jul 20, 2022 • 36min
AI Today Podcast: Adopting AI Best Practices – Interview with Krystene Jennings, Centene
Companies of all sizes in just about every single industry are looking to see how Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cognitive technology projects can provide a competitive edge, provide efficiencies, and improve ROI in today’s competitive landscape. As a result, this creates tremendous opportunity for people looking to manage these types of projects and there is a significant and growing demand for skilled AI project managers across the whole range of AI capabilities.Continue reading AI Today Podcast: Adopting AI Best Practices – Interview with Krystene Jennings, Centene at Cognilytica.