AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
Dan Turchin
Host Dan Turchin, PeopleReign CEO, explores how AI is changing the workplace. He interviews thought leaders and technologists from industry and academia who share their experiences and insights about artificial intelligence and what it means to be human in the era of AI-driven automation. Learn more about PeopleReign, the system of intelligence for IT and HR employee service: http://www.peoplereign.io.
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Meredith Broussard, NYU professor, AI ethics authority, and featured expert in Coded Bias, discusses the social implications of AI
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
02/27/23 • 38 min
Meredith Broussard is one of the most visible, vocal leaders in the emerging field of algorithmic accountability. Professor Broussard is a data scientist and Associate Professor at NYU whose research focuses on AI in investigative reporting and using data analysis for social good. Meredith is the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World and the forthcoming More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech.
Among other things, Professor Broussard was featured in the seminal documentary Coded Bias. Today's discussion is about one of the most important topics in our field and in this episode we explore it with someone whose name is on a shortlist of AI ethics pioneers. You’ve heard me say repeatedly coursework in AI ethics should be required for every student graduating with a technical degree. Here's why!
Listen and learn...
- How AI reveals bias encoded in society
- Why it's important to always ask "what could go wrong"
- What is the new field of "algorithmic accountability reporting"
- What the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights may mean for bad acting companies
- What's the right role for the federal government in AI regulation
- How to assign an "accountability score" to algorithms
- The ethical issues related to AI we'll be discussing in a decade
References in this episode...
- More Than a Glitch, Professor Broussard's new book... and her "love letter" to an amazing group of women who are pioneers in the emerging field of algorithmic accountability
- Professor Broussard's personal website
- The racist soap dispenser
- Joy Buolamwini's Algorithmic Justice League
- Rumman Choudary, formerly head of the META team at Twitter
- Cathy O'Neil's ORCAA
- The ethical judgments built into generative AI models
- Google's "stochastic parrots" debacle
- The Agnes Irwin School outside Philadelphia
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Andi Mann, Sageable CEO and AIOps pioneer, discusses enterprise AI wins and the impact of automation on jobs
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
03/06/23 • 34 min
We often discuss the future of work for enterprise employees. What technology will they use, how will people and machines interact, and how teams will be organized when geography and language are no longer barriers. Few have spent more time in and around enterprise service management than today’s guest and few are better qualified to share insights about what’s ahead.
Andi Mann has been a technology leader in technology companies around the world since the 90s. He founded Sageable, the digital transformation advisory services practice, in 2015 and has also recently served in roles that include CTO for DevOps at Splunk and VP Products and Strategy at CA which is now part of Broadcom. Andi and I both did time at BMC Software in the early 2000s. Andi is the author of multiple books including The Innovative CIO, he’s a sought after speaker, and tech provocateur who is never shy about what’s wrong with IT and where the world of digital is headed.
Thanks to friend of the podcast Steve Kaplan for the intro to Andi.
Listen and learn...
- Why Andi summarizes his career this way: "I make computers do more work to allow people to do more creative things"
- The best use of enterprise AI Andi has seen
- How Andi helped an industrial transportation company save a billion dollars
- Why “less complex systems can’t understand more complex systems”
- Why the best use of AI is targeting “known knowns” by augmenting vs. replacing human intelligence
- How to overcome the lack of trust in AI
- Why AI won’t eliminate any jobs... and why it will create many new ones
- Skills to invest in today that will never be replaced by automation
References in this episode...
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Dr. Eric Siegel, Founder of Machine Learning Week, on 6 steps to usher in successful ML projects
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
02/12/24 • 36 min
Dr. Eric Siegel is a leading consultant and former Columbia University professor who helps companies deploy machine learning. He is the founder of the long-running Machine Learning Week conference series and its new sister, Generative AI World, the instructor of the acclaimed online course “Machine Learning Leadership and Practice – End-to-End Mastery,” executive editor of The Machine Learning Times, and a frequent keynote speaker. He wrote the bestselling "Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die," which has been used in courses at hundreds of universities, as well as "The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment."
Eric’s interdisciplinary work bridges the stubborn technology/business gap. At Columbia, he won the Distinguished Faculty award when teaching the graduate *computer science* courses in ML and AI. Later, he served as a *business school* professor at UVA Darden. Eric has appeared on numerous media channels, including Bloomberg, National Geographic, and NPR, and has published in Newsweek, HBR, SciAm blog, WaPo, WSJ, and more.
Listen and learn
- How he’s progressed in the field of machine learning over 30 years
- 6-step process to usher in machine learning programs from conception to deployment
- What 3 things non-technical people in business should know about how machine learning works & delivers value
- How to know when to use classical machine learning vs generative AI to solve a data problem
- How to mitigate the impact of human bias in shaping AI
Resources
- Purchase "The AI Playbook" — http://www.bizML.com
- Scott Zoldi episode —https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/520474.rss
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AI and the Future of Work with Diane Keng, Founder and CEO of Breinify, the leading AI platform for predictive personalization
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
05/16/20 • 28 min
On this week’s episode of AI and the Future of Work, we discuss the future of post-pandemic consumer behavior and AI in retail with Breinify CEO Diane Keng. Breinify develops a predictive personalization engine used by brands like BevMo! to understand how we buy and optimize the buying experience. She’s building a great culture and learning fast as a first-time founder and CEO.
Listen and learn…
- How Diane thinks about company culture and how she keeps her team motivated in the face of uncertainty.
- How AI is delivering a better consumer experience and how to use data to predict behavior without violating consumer privacy.
- How Breinify uses data signals to identify “moments that matter”.
- Diane’s superpower and her advice for the next generation of female founders.
Smarter Collaboration: Parabol Founder and CEO Jordan Husney Outlines a Better Way to Structure Your Meetings to Get More Out of Your Teams
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
08/15/19 • 29 min
Jordan Husney is the founder and CEO of Parabol, a meeting software product for agile teams, particularly those distributed around the world. Jordan shares his insights with host Dan Turchin around the difference between teams & interest groups, key rules of engagement for productive meetings, and his thoughts on what the future of work will look like for employees & knowledge workers around the globe. He also shares a fascinating perspective on how his experience as a start-up founder has allowed him to see a different side of America.
Challenges for CIO's and IT Leaders Addressed in this Podcast:
1. How do you make meetings more engaging and productive?
2. How to deal with the office narcissist?
3. What's the difference between a team and an interest group? And, why should you care?
4. What are effective rules of engagement to actually make meetings useful?
To learn more about Parabol, visit: https://www.parabol.co/
To learn more about Astound, visit: https://astound.ai/
Kit Colbert, VMware SVP and CTO, discusses 20 years of tech innovation and what's ahead for generative AI
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
08/07/23 • 38 min
Today’s guest has had a front row seat for every technology platform shift for the past 20+ years. More important, he has played an important role in enabling several of them.
Kit Colbert joined tech stalwart VMware in September 2003 and currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer. He is responsible for ensuring VMware’s long term technology leadership through research and innovation programs. Kit manages the VMware Engineering Services team, advanced R&D initiatives, the Design/UX team and the company’s ESG commitments.
Kit was previously VMware’s Cloud CTO, General Manager of VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps business, CTO for VMware’s End-User Computing Business, and the lead architect for the vRealize Operations Suite.
Kit is a recognized thought-leader on application modernization and multi-cloud trends and a frequent speaker. He holds a bachelor’s of science in computer science from Brown University.
Listen and learn...
- How a Silicon Valley stalwart like VMware innovates from the inside
- How VMware's founder-led culture continues to influence the company today
- How VMware reinvented itself beyond desktop virtualization
- Kit's recipe for innovation
- Why crypto and AI hype are similar
- Kit's perspective on how to regulate AI
- VMware's generative AI strategy
References in this episode...
Bradley Metrock, CEO of Project Voice and VC, discusses the future of generative AI and voice assistants
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
04/10/23 • 37 min
Today’s guest is one of the most recognized investors and thought leaders in the conversational AI community. Bradley Metrock is the CEO of Project Voice, author of the popular Substack newsletter This Week in Voice with more than 30,000 subscribers, and a General Partner at Project Voice Capital Partners. Congrats to Bradley and the team on their recent announcement of their new rolling fund.
Bradley’s a proud citizen of the Volunteer State of Tennessee. Fair warning: you may be ready to move to Chattanooga after today’s conversation. Oh, and he’s also an ironman in the world of podcasting having just launched season eight of This Week in Voice, a podcast he launched in 2017. We’re on about episode 180 of this podcast going back to 2019 so I admire Bradley’s stamina.
Listen and learn...
- Where there’s opportunity for entrepreneurs to innovate in conversational AI
- How conversational AI is changing quick serve restaurants, contact centers, banking, and hospitality
- How Bradley evaluates new pitches at Project Voice Capital Partners
- How Bradley defines voice technology in his market map
- Is voice the new app... or perhaps the “original app”
- Why generative AI is so disruptive
- Should we be concerned about voice assistants like Siri and Alexa listening in on our conversations
- What jobs will AI create over the next decade
- Bradley sells the great state of Tennessee to entrepreneurs establishing roots outside a coastal state
References in this episode...
- Dr. Lance Eliot describes the risk of sharing your data with ChatGPT
- Applied Brain Research, a Project Voice Capital Partners investment
- Bradley’s voice technology market map
- The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
- Project Voice 2023
Amr Awadallah, CEO of Vectara and co-founder of Cloudera, discusses the future of AI search
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
11/13/23 • 36 min
Amr and I met on a genAI panel and everything he said was both insightful and contrarian. Immediately, I knew I wanted to introduce him to you. Amr is a legend in the search space who, by the way, also founded Cloudera which went public in 2017 at a valuation of over $5B.
Dr. Amr Awadallah is a luminary in the world of information retrieval. He's the CEO and cofounder of Vectara, a company that is revolutionizing how we find meaning across all languages of the world using the latest advances in Deep Neural Networks, Large Language Models, and Natural Language Processing. He previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as Global CTO. He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! from 2000-2008. Amr received his PhD in EE from Stanford University, and his Bachelor and Masters Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.
Listen and learn...
- How Amr discovered the power of "talking to software" via LLMs while at Google
- About the history of new computing modalities
- About the current state of generative AI
- The technical explanation for hallucination in LLMs
- How do we mitigate bias in LLM models and prevent copyright infringement
- Why a semantic understanding of queries is the next frontier in search
- The challenge faced by search providers of making money incorporating ads into LLM-based answers
- How "grounded search" will fix the hallucination problem
- What is a "fact" in the era of ChatGPT?
- How long before we have "antivirus sofware for fact-checking" genAI propaganda
- How should AI be regulated... and who is responsible for AI regulation
- The next big idea in genAI Amr and I are ready to fund
- Amr's advice to entrepreneurs... and to himself
References in this episode...
307: Keith Sonderling, EEOC Commissioner: using AI to make hiring more fair and eliminate human bias
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
10/21/24 • 47 min
Commissioner Keith Sonderling was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support as a Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2020. Prior to this role, he served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the U.S. Department of Labor. Before joining the Department of Labor in 2017, Commissioner Sonderling practiced labor and employment law in Florida. He currently lectures on employment discrimination at George Washington University Law School. At the EEOC, he prioritizes ensuring that AI and workplace technologies align with civil rights laws, and he has published extensively on the benefits and risks associated with AI in the workplace.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Commissioner Keith Sonderling's perspective on how AI is transforming HR and the role of the EEOC in regulating AI technologies in the workplace.
- The potential benefits of AI in reducing bias during employment decisions and its alignment with civil rights laws.
- Challenges in ensuring AI algorithms are designed and used properly to prevent discrimination in hiring and other HR processes.
- The importance of transparency and consent when using AI in hiring and promotion processes, including the emerging state and federal regulations addressing these issues.
- The role of employers in mitigating risks associated with AI by implementing self-regulation and bias audits before deployment.
- The complexities of holding different parties accountable for biased AI decisions, and why employers remain legally responsible for employment outcomes.
Resources
Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter
Keith Sonderling’s Paper “Filling the Void: Artificial Intelligence And Private Initiatives”
299: Josh Allan Dykstra, Founder of The Work Revolution, On Finding Work You'll Love
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
08/26/24 • 32 min
Josh Allan Dykstra is a polymath and TEDx speaker who has made significant contributions as a published author, musician, and CEO. As a sought-after coach on the future of work, Josh has collaborated with industry giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Chanel. He founded The Work Revolution, an organization dedicated to creating energy-based workplaces where teams can thrive, believing that work life can be a source of positivity. Josh is also the author of "Igniting the Invisible Tribe," and his boundless energy and innovative approach have inspired many to rethink their work and lives.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Josh's journey from a classically trained musician to becoming a leading voice in the future of work.
- We explore the pivotal moment that led Josh to shift his focus from music to transforming the workplace.
- Josh shares his vision for an energy-based work system that empowers employees rather than draining them.
- The concept of a work revolution and what it means to completely turn around traditional work systems.
- Josh’s belief that work can be a force for healing the world, even amid global challenges.
- The potential of AI in the workplace and how leaders can prepare for the future while prioritizing human well-being.
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