Listen "Reframing Responsible AI with Ravit Dotan"
Episode Synopsis
Ravit Dotan, PhD asserts that beneficial AI adoption requires clarity of purpose, good judgment, ethical leadership, and making responsibility integral to innovation. Ravit and Kimberly discuss the philosophy of science; why all algorithms incorporate values; how technical judgements centralize power; not exempting AI from established norms; when lists of risks lead us astray; wasting water, eating meat, and using AI responsibly; corporate ethics washing; patterns of ethical decoupling; reframing the relationship between responsibility and innovation; measuring what matters; and the next phase of ethical innovation in practice. Ravit Dotan, PhD is an AI ethics researcher and governance advisor on a mission to enable everyone to adopt AI the right way. The Founder and CEO of TechBetter, Ravit holds a PhD in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and is a sought-after advisor on the topic of responsible innovation.Related ResourcesThe AI Treasure Chest (Substack): https://techbetter.substack.com/The Values Embedded in Machine Learning Research (Paper): https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3531146.3533083A transcript of this episode is here.
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