Extended Intelligence and Humans with Machines

Leading Conversations in AI

Launched on March 8, 2021, the Deloitte AI Institute discusses trending topics in the AI space with the series “Leading Conversations in AI”. Here you find answers to questions like how to implement AI in your workplace, what are the ethical ways to use AI, and what is the role of diversity within AI. In this series, you gather perspectives from experts and researchers from a varied range of industries, startups, enterprises, academia, and research groups.

AI impacts businesses across sectors and geographies. Hence, there is a need for more diverse voices in the workforce to ensure that AI works for everyone. Deloitte is one of the pioneers in women’s advancement programs and diversity initiatives. With the Deloitte AI Institute, we continue to honor this commitment by helping women advance in AI knowledge and AI-related careers. Through the Leading Conversations in AI Meet-up Series, we talk to women leaders who are making an impact on artificial intelligence and its future.

Throughout the series, our speakers will deep dive into a multitude of dimensions of AI in each session - conversational AI, robotics, ethics, scaling AI, future of work, diversity in AI, synthetic data, MLOps, neuromorphic computing, computer vision, data and AI governance, speech recognition, and many more.

The seventh installment brings media and communications experts in conversation on bringing extended intelligence to AI with the help of diversity and ethics.

Panelists include: 

• Cynthia Breazeal, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT
• Pattie Maes, Professor of Media and Technology, MIT Media Labs
• Dr. Kate Darling, Communications and Research Specialist, MIT Media Labs
• Patricia Henderson, Partner at Deloitte Consulting Practice

Patricia Henderson navigates through the all-women panel of specialists in media and communications to explore why diversity is important for AI implementations to succeed.

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