In this episode, we sit down with Zulfiya Forsythe to discuss the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on various industries and societies. Zulfiya, shares her insights on the benefits and challenges of AI, emphasizing the importance of responsible implementation and ethical considerations. We delve into specific applications of AI, such as its potential to improve healthcare, education, and economic development in remote regions. Additionally, the conversation explores the ethical implications of AI, including bias, privacy concerns, and the potential for job displacement About Zulfiya
Zulfiya, the visionary founder of Omadli LLC, is a driving force in the world of data analytics. With a deep passion for harnessing the power of data and AI, she leads her company in providing comprehensive solutions tailored to various industries. Passionate about the power of data, Zulfiya leads her company in providing tailored solutions to various industries. Her journey began with a fascination for data's transformative potential, inspiring her transition from accounting to data science.
About The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI).
The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) is a global nonprofit organization committed to strengthening the Asia-Pacific economies by facilitating the responsible development and adoption of artificial intelligence. The AIAPI serves as an independent catalyst, uniting stakeholders to guide AI’s responsible development through interdisciplinary research, awareness raising, international collaboration, and policy advisory activities.
In our 50th episode, we sit down with Henry Dobson. This podcast delves into the world of AI ethics. We discuss the challenges of applying numerous ethical principles to AI, the gap between theory and practice in AI ethics, and the unique considerations for AI in the Pacific Islands. We also explore the controversial topic of AGI, discussing its feasibility, potential consequences, and the implications of creating machine consciousness. About Henry Dobson Henry Dobson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore. Henry holds a PhD in AI ethics from the University of Melbourne, and a Master’s degree in philosophy of mind from Monash University. He also spent several years in London working with entrepreneurs and early-stage startups focusing on product design and business development.
About The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI).
The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) is a global nonprofit organization committed to strengthening the Asia-Pacific economies by facilitating the responsible development and adoption of artificial intelligence. The AIAPI serves as an independent catalyst, uniting stakeholders to guide AI’s responsible development through interdisciplinary research, awareness raising, international collaboration, and policy advisory activities.
In the second episode of Season 6, we sit down with Mr. Roger Spitz, a thought leader in Techistentialism, to explore its application in the Pacific Islands. Roger shares insights on how technology, inseparable from human life, can influence the development of these regions, particularly as they face the existential threat of climate change. We discuss the role of digital technology and AI in both mitigating and exacerbating these challenges. Roger also highlights the importance of foresight over prediction in navigating future uncertainties and sheds light on the AAA Approach—Anticipatory, Antifragile, and Agile—as a strategy to build resilience and sustainable growth in the Pacific Islands.
About Roger Spitz
Roger Spitz is the bestselling author of the four-volume collection The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption and Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World. President of Techistential (Strategic Foresight), and founder of Disruptive Futures Institute (Think Tank) in San Francisco, Spitz is an expert advisor of the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network. Spitz writes extensively on the future of AI and strategic decision-making, and serves on the AI Council of the Indian Society for Artificial Intelligence. He founded the Techistential Center for Human & Artificial Intelligence, and is known for coining the term “Techistentialism.” Spitz is also a partner of Vektor Partners a venture capital fund (Palo Alto, London), and former Global Head of Technology M&A with BNP Paribas, where he advised on over 50 transactions with deal value of $25bn.
About AI Asia Pacific Institute
The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) is a global not-for-profit committed to strengthening the Asia-Pacific economies by facilitating the responsible development and adoption of artificial intelligence.
The AIAPI serves as an independent catalyst, uniting stakeholders to guide AI’s responsible development through interdisciplinary research, awareness raising, international collaboration, and policy advisory activities.
Read our latest report on ' The State of AI in the Pacific Islands' here
Our first guest of this season, Dr. Karaitiana Tairu, joins us for an insightful discussion on the intersection of AI and the Pacific Islands. Dr. Tairu discusses the intricate balance between preserving cultural heritage and embracing innovation, highlighting the role of AI in creating sustainable solutions tailored to the unique needs of the Pacific Islands. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the convergence of tradition and technology
About AI Asia Pacific Institute
The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) is a global not-for-profit committed to strengthening the Asia-Pacific economies by facilitating the responsible development and adoption of artificial intelligence.
The AIAPI serves as an independent catalyst, uniting stakeholders to guide AI’s responsible development through interdisciplinary research, awareness raising, international collaboration, and policy advisory activities.
About Dr Karaitiana Taiuru
Dr Taiuru is a leading authority and a highly accomplished visionary Māori technology ethicist specialising in Māori rights with AI, Māori Data Sovereignty and Governance with emerging digital technologies and biological sciences.
He brings extensive expertise in mātauranga, tikanga Māori, te Tiriti and advocacy for digital Māori rights and a profound understanding of the intersection between Māori knowledge and emerging technologies.
A professional director with membership with Institute of Directors, with roles including membership and Kahui Māori advisor of the New Zealand AI Forum, member and tangata whenua governor of the AI Researchers Association, invited member of the Expert panel on AI and healthcare for the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Scientific Advisor, a legislated expert member of the Intellectual Property Office (IPONZ) Trade Marks Advisory Committee and Ministry of Health Tikanga Expert on Assisted Reproduction, as well as many other governance appointments.
In our latest season, we dive into the transformative potential of AI in the Pacific Islands. Join us as we discuss insights from our annual report, "The State of Artificial Intelligence in the Pacific Islands," and hear from leading experts in the region. We explore how AI, including Generative AI, can address critical challenges like geographic isolation, climate change, and economic fragmentation in the Pacific Islands
The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) is hosting a series of conversations with leading artificial intelligence (AI) experts to study ChatGPT and its risks, looking to arrive at tangible recommendations for regulators and policymakers. These experts include Dr. Toby Walsh, Dr. Stuart Russell, Dr. Pedro Domingos, and Dr. Luciano Floridi, as well as our internal advisory board and research affiliates. We have published a briefing note outlining some of the critical risks of generative AI and highlighting potential concerns.
The following is a conversation with Dr. Luciano Floridi.
Dr. Luciano Floridi holds a double appointment as professor of philosophy and ethics of information at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute where he is also Governing Body Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and as Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies, where he is the director of the Centre for Digital Ethics. He is adjunct professor ("distinguished scholar in residence"), Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C.
Dr. Floridi is best known for his work on two areas of philosophical research: the philosophy of information, and information ethics (also known as digital ethics or computer ethics), for which he received many awards, including the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, Italy’s most prestigious honour. According to Scopus, Floridi was the most cited living philosopher in the world in 2020.
Between 2008 and 2013, he held the research chair in philosophy of information and the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the founder and director of the IEG, an interdepartmental research group on the philosophy of information at the University of Oxford, and of the GPI the research Group in Philosophy of Information at the University of Hertfordshire. He was the founder and director of the SWIF, the Italian e-journal of philosophy (1995–2008). He is a former Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.
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The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) is hosting a series of conversations with leading artificial intelligence (AI) experts to study ChatGPT and its risks, looking to arrive at tangible recommendations for regulators and policymakers. These experts include Dr. Toby Walsh, Dr. Stuart Russell, Dr. Pedro Domingos, and Dr. Luciano Floridi, as well as our internal advisory board and research affiliates. We have published a briefing note outlining some of the critical risks of generative AI and highlighting potential concerns.
The following is a conversation with Dr. Pedro Domingos.
Dr. Pedro Domingos is a professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington and the author of The Master Algorithm. He is a winner of the SIGKDD Innovation Award and the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, two of the highest honors in data science and AI. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and AAAI, and has received an NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, an IBM Faculty Award, several best paper awards, and other distinctions. Dr. Domingos received an undergraduate degree (1988) and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1992) from IST, in Lisbon, and an M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. He is the author or co-author of over 200 technical publications in machine learning, data mining, and other areas. He is a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal, co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society, and past associate editor of JAIR. Dr. Domingos was program co-chair of KDD-2003 and SRL-2009, and served on the program committees of AAAI, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, NIPS, SIGMOD, UAI, WWW, and others. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Scientific American, Wired, and others. He helped start the fields of statistical relational AI, data stream mining, adversarial learning, machine learning for information integration, and influence maximization in social networks.
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The AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) has hosted a series of conversations with leading artificial intelligence (AI) experts to study ChatGPT and its risks, looking to arrive at tangible recommendations for regulators and policymakers. These experts include Dr. Toby Walsh, Dr. Stuart Russell, Dr. Pedro Domingos, and Dr. Luciano Floridi, as well as our internal advisory board and research affiliates. The following is a conversation with Dr. Toby Walsh and Dr. Stuart Russell.
Dr. Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist at UNSW.ai, UNSW's new AI Institute. He is a Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, and he is also an adjunct fellow at CSIRO Data61. He was named by the Australian newspaper as a "rock star" of Australia's digital revolution. He has been elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a fellow of the ACM, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. He has won the prestigious Humboldt Prize as well as the NSW Premier's Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT, and the ACP Research Excellence award. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden. He has played a leading role at the UN and elsewhere on the campaign to ban lethal autonomous weapons (aka "killer robots"). His advocacy in this area has led to him being "banned indefinitely" from Russia.
Dr. Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. He is a recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and Research Excellence Award and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received the OBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and gave the Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, used in 1500 universities in 135 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence systems have significantly advanced in recent years, enabling machines to generate highly realistic content such as text, images, and audio. While these advancements offer numerous benefits, it is critical that we are aware of the associated risks. The AI Asia Pacific Institute has hosted a series of conversations with leading AI experts to study ChatGPT and its risks, looking to arrive at tangible recommendations for regulators and policymakers. These experts include Dr. Toby Walsh, Dr. Stuart Russell, Dr. Pedro Domingos, and Dr. Luciano Floridi.
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This podcast series details our most recent publication '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Region'. The report provides continuity to the work the AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) published in 2021, but adopts a more in-depth focus on Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India.
The report assesses each country based on the following indicators: best practices; opportunities and challenges; and prospects for collaboration, for the end goal of assessing each country’s unique approach to Trustworthy AI, and identifying mutual grounds as impetus for regional and international collaboration.
In this podcast, Dr Heo shares the recent developments in South Korea to advance trustworthy AI.
Dr. Heo is an associate professor at Seoul National University Law School in Korea. He holds a Ph. D. in law from Seoul National University. Before joining the faculty of SNU, he served as a judge of Seoul Central District Court in Korea.
This conversation covers the recent report published by the AI Asia Pacific Institute '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Report'.
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This podcast series details our most recent publication '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Region'. The report provides continuity to the work the AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) published in 2021, but adopts a more in-depth focus on Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India.
The report assesses each country based on the following indicators: best practices; opportunities and challenges; and prospects for collaboration, for the end goal of assessing each country’s unique approach to Trustworthy AI, and identifying mutual grounds as impetus for regional and international collaboration.
In this podcast, Wan Sie LEE shares the recent developments in Singapore to advance trustworthy AI.
This conversation covers the recent report published by the AI Asia Pacific Institute '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Report'.
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Links to some of the initiatives that have been covered in this conversation: Veritas; AI Singapore; NovA!
This podcast series details our most recent publication '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Region'. The report provides continuity to the work the AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) published in 2021, but adopts a more in-depth focus on Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India.
The report assesses each country based on the following indicators: best practices; opportunities and challenges; and prospects for collaboration, for the end goal of assessing each country’s unique approach to Trustworthy AI, and identifying mutual grounds as impetus for regional and international collaboration.
In this podcast, Arunima Sarkar shares the recent developments in India to advance trustworthy AI.
This conversation covers the recent report published by the AI Asia Pacific Institute '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Report'.
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This podcast series details our most recent publication '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Region'. The report provides continuity to the work the AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) published in 2021, but adopts a more in-depth focus on Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India.
The report assesses each country based on the following indicators: best practices; opportunities and challenges; and prospects for collaboration, for the end goal of assessing each country’s unique approach to Trustworthy AI, and identifying mutual grounds as impetus for regional and international collaboration.
In this podcast, we will dissect the salient points and key findings from our study, looking closely at Australia and India to locate convergence for greater collaboration and coordination amid increasing pressure for regulation and international collaboration to advance trustworthy AI in the Asia Pacific region.
This conversation covers the recent report published by the AI Asia Pacific Institute '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Report'.
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This podcast series details our most recent publication '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Region'. The report provides continuity to the work the AI Asia Pacific Institute (AIAPI) published in 2021, but adopts a more in-depth focus on Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and India.
The report assesses each country based on the following indicators: best practices; opportunities and challenges; and prospects for collaboration, for the end goal of assessing each country’s unique approach to Trustworthy AI, and identifying mutual grounds as impetus for regional and international collaboration.
In this podcast, we will dissect the salient points and key findings from our study, looking closely at Singapore, Japan and South Korea to locate convergence for greater collaboration and coordination amid increasing pressure for regulation and international collaboration to advance trustworthy AI in the Asia Pacific region.
This conversation covers the recent report published by the AI Asia Pacific Institute '2022 Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Asia-Pacific Report'.
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AI is transnational and borderless. As AI developments unfold at such unprecedented scale and pace, the call for building trustworthy AI has been resounding. To achieve it, international cooperation is crucial.
Join us for a whole new season of this Podcast, where we are deepen our research aiming to promote and amplify collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region.
We will dissect Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia and India to find convergence for greater collaboration and coordination amid increasing pressure for regulation and international collaboration to advance trustworthy AI in the Asia-Pacific.
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"Regulation is coming" — David Berend
David Berend is leading the standardisation of AI Security in Singapore where he and his team are about to publish the world first version of the standard in the next 2 months. Furthermore, he developed the research tools for AI quality assurance as part of his Ph.D., which he is now commercialising as a spin off from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Finally, he is member of the German Standards Commission and ISO, to integrate the Singapore Standard Achievements into global context.
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"What always needs to be at the forefront: what physical and regulatory constraints is your system contending with at any given time and how do you design a suite of methods that actually satisfy those constraints" — Priya L. Donti
Priya L. Donti is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department and the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Zico Kolter and Inês Azevedo. She is also co-founder and chair of Climate Change AI, an initiative to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.
Her work focuses on machine learning for forecasting, optimization, and control in high-renewables power grids. Specifically, Priya's research explores methods to incorporate the physics and hard constraints associated with electric power systems into deep learning models. Please see here for a list of her recent publications.
Priya is a member of the MIT Technology Review 2021 list of 35 Innovators Under 35, and a 2022 Siebel Scholar. She was previously a U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Priya received her undergraduate degree at Harvey Mudd College in computer science and math with an emphasis in environmental analysis.
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In this conversation, we covered many practical recommendations on operationalising ethics of AI, discussed FEAT, Singapore’s framework for the financial industry and arrived at some predictions in relation to what’s next for the industry.
David Hardoon is the Senior Advisor for Data and Artificial Intelligence at UnionBank Philippines, Chair of Data Committee at Aboitiz Group and acting in capacity of Managing Director for Aboitiz Data Innovation. He is also an external advisor to Singapore's Corrupt Investigation Practices Bureau (CPIB) and to Singapore's Central Provident Fund Board (CPF).
Prior to his current roles, David was Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) first appointed Chief Data Officer and Head of Data Analytics Group. In these roles he led the development of the AI strategy both for MAS and Singapore’s financial sector as well as driving efforts in promoting open cross-border data flows. David pioneered the regulator and central bank adoption of data science as well as establishment of the Fairness, Ethics, Accountability and Transparancy (FEAT) principles, first-of-a-kind guidelines for adopting Artificial Intelligence in the financial industry, as well as establishing the MAS-backed Veritas consortium.
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Hardeep Arora has around 21yrs of experience in Analytics and Data Science Technology in Financial Services. He is based out of Singapore and is heading the AI Research and Engineering at a social media startup called Aaqua where he is building their AI infrastructure and engineering team. Hardeep was the head of AI in FS @ Element AI, where he worked on numerous client engagements, including MAS Veritas Phase 1. He also did a brief stint in Accenture Singapore where he setup an AI Lab focusing on Financial Services use-cases. He also spent more than a decade working in AI and Analytics teams in banks including Standard Chartered, JP Morgan, and Barclays.
Hardeep has a graduate degree in Computer Science and MBA in Finance, he is AI advisor for few startups in the region, and a regular speaker at events in Singapore.
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How’s algorithmic decisions impacting our humanity? It’s the question of our times.
Join us for a whole new season of this Podcast, where we are deepen our research into the impact of algorithmic decisions on humans.
To do this, we will go on a journey and look at the application of algorithm decisions and its implications in different industries. We will explore the Financial Industry, Power & Sustainability and Social Media.
Wish fascinating guests, as part of this series we are also joined by different guest interviewers, they will guide us as we explore this world of algorithmic decisions.
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"I would argue that the growing digital divide could be as dangerous as the climate crises" — Irakli Beridze
Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UNICRI, United Nations. More than 20 years of experience in leading multilateral negotiations, developing stakeholder engagement programmes with governments, UN agencies, international organisations, private industry and corporations, think tanks, civil society, foundations, academia, and other partners on an international level. Mr Beridze is advising governments and international organizations on numerous issues related to international security, scientific and technological developments, emerging technologies, innovation and disruptive potential of new technologies, particularly on the issue on crime prevention, criminal justice and security.
Mr Beridze is supporting governments worldwide on the strategies, action plans, roadmaps and policy papers on AI. Since 2014, Initiated and managed one of the first United Nations Programmes on AI. Initiating and organizing number of high-level events at the United Nations General Assembly, and other international organizations. Finding synergies with traditional threats and risks as well as identifying solutions that AI can contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He is a member of various international task forces, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council, the UN High-level panel for digital cooperation, the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence of the European Commission. He is frequently lecturing and speaking on the subjects related to technological development, exponential technologies, artificial intelligence and robotics and international security. He has numerous publications in international journals and magazines and frequently quoted in media on the issues related to AI. Irakli Beridze is an International Gender Champion supporting the IGC Panel Parity Pledge. He is also recipient of recognition on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the OPCW in 2013.
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