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Interview with IBM Fellow and AI Global Ethical Leader Francesca Rossi

You'll immediately think of Francesca Rossi when discussing AI and ethics.

Francesca is not only the Global Leader for AI Ethics at IBM, but also the president of the worldwide association of AI (AAAI) and a fellow of the European one (EurAI).
She has been president of IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI), an executive councillor of AAAI,
and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of AI Research.

Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence and specifically the areas of constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, and collective decision making. She is also a champion and recognized global leader in addressing ethical issues in the development and behavior of AI systems, particularly for decision support systems for group decision making.

In this interview, she discusses her career history, interests in AI, and traveling from Italy to the United States to work for IBM in her interview. She shares her experience as an Italian professor and her recent meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican to continue advancing the Rome Call for AI ethics, an agreement established in 2020 by The Pontifical Academy for Life, IBM and Microsoft to support an ethical approach to AI.

An educational interview with a real role model for everyone!

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Interview with Strategic Program Leader at IBM Miriam Oglesby

Miriam Oglesby is yet another inspiring woman in AI who is using her knowledge and skills to create new innovations. She is creating diverse ecosystems for developers, where everyone is able to be their full selves to engage the skills and potentials. Miriam is also part of the Women Who Code in Berlin, which is engaging a world where women are proportionally represented as technical leaders, executives, founders, VCs, board members, and software engineers.

In her interview she is especially talking about the importance of diversity in developer teams. She is reflecting the issue on her studies and thesis which is focusing on how the gender and diversity gaps in companies are effecting the outcome. Miriam is also talking about how to improve this issue and how to start tackling it, as well as what is happening already.

Again another interview with an eyeopening view and very motivational and inspiring to listen to Miriam.

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Interview with research scientist Anupama Ray

Anupama Ray is using AI to make the world a better place. Working from the IBM Indian research Lab in Bangalore, she is using Speech Services paired with Machine Learning and complex Natural Language Processes to create a tool that helps children who are recovering from child trafficking.

In her interview she is not only talking abut her inventions and AI but also about the current situation of women in India and how the “guilty“ question is quite present, especially among her fellow PhD colleagues.

An overall very learning and educational interview with a lot of insights for the understanding and usage of AI focusing on mental diseases.


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Interview with managing director Anja Hendel

Anja Hendel is an inspiration for everyone looking for a real power woman with a very successful career. In her interview she reflects on her own career path, her studies in computer science, and how she became the managing director for diconium.

Anja refelcts about typical stereotypes and why some people and companies are afraid of AI. She is also giving advise on how to handle those critics and what she thinks is necessary to make sure AI is healthy implemented in our daily life, for example early education in schools.

Anja overall is a full Woman in AI, her view and her positioning on AI is important and also inspiring.


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