The voices of women in tech are still being erased
(MIT Technology Review) Rumman Chowdhury, who holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and is the founder and former CEO of Parity, a company focused on ethical AI, saw her role in her own company’s history minimized by the New York Times.
Responsible AI & the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Rumman Chowdhury
(Carnegie Council) How can we use artificial intelligence ethically during a crisis? How do we balance privacy with security and public health? Rumman Chowdhury, global lead for responsible AI at Accenture, discusses surveillance, supply chains, pseudoscience, Netflix, and much more as the world adjusts to social distancing.
To Really 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers
(Wired) Silicon Valley culture often reveals the optimism of organized ignorance. Rather than lauding "new" experts, we need to respect, sustain, and strengthen the ones we already have.
From whistleblower laws to unions: How Google’s AI ethics meltdown could shape policy
(Venture Beat) “I think just the collateral damage to literally everybody: Google, the industry of AI, of responsible AI … I don’t think they really understand what they’ve done. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have done it,” Chowdhury told VentureBeat.
Critical Literacy for AI Governance Modeling
(Spotify) AI ethics: most importantly, being aware of who has the power to make & influence decisions over digital projects.
Rumman Chowdhury is CEO of Parity, a company she created a few months ago after leaving her position as a global lead for responsible AI at Accenture. She believes such regulation should take into consideration the fact that use cases can range greatly from industry to industry.
Putting Responsible AI Into Practice
(MIT) A survey of individuals driving ethical AI efforts found that the practice has a long way to go. AI efforts are shifting their focus from establishing high-level principles and guidance to managing the system-level change that is necessary to make responsible AI a reality.
What explainable AI really means and what it means for your business (VB Live)
(Venture Beat) “When I think about how to ‘unpack’ a black box, I think about how to use the output of my model in a way that’s understandable to the person at the end of it, who is not always a data scientist,” says Chowdhury. “How to take that output and make it something understandable to, say, a business leader, someone in the C-suite, or someone calling customer service to understand why their credit line was not approved by a certain credit card.”
Where AI meets humanity
(Digital Future Society) Interview with con Rumman Chowdhury, data and social scientist and Accenture Lead for Responsible AI.