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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Welcome to Smart with IBM, a podcast from
Speaker 3: Pushkin Industri's iHeartRadio and IBM. I'm Malcolm Glabwell. This season
Speaker 3: we're continuing our conversation with new creators visionaries who are
Speaker 3: creatively applying technology in business to drive change, but with
Speaker 3: a focus on the transformative power of artificial intelligence and
Speaker 3: what it means to leverage AI as a game changing
Speaker 3: multiplier for your business. Our guest today is Christina Montgomery,
Speaker 3: IBM's Chief Privacy and Trust Officer. She's also chair of
Speaker 3: IBM's AI Ethics Board. In addition to overseeing IBM's privacy policy,
Speaker 3: a core part of Christina's job involves AI governance, making
Speaker 3: sure the way AI is used complies with the international
Speaker 3: legal regulations customized for each industry. In today's episode, Christina
Speaker 3: will explain why businesses need foundational principles when it comes
Speaker 3: to using technology, why AI regulation should focus on specific
Speaker 3: use cases over the technology itself, and share a little
Speaker 3: bit about her landmark congressional testimony. Last May, Christina spoke
Speaker 3: with doctor Lori Santos, host of the Pushkin podcast The
Speaker 3: Happiness Lab, a cognitive scientist and psychology professor at Yale University.
Speaker 3: Laurie is an expert on human happiness and cognition. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's get to the interview.
Speaker 4: So Christina, I'm so excited to talk to you today.
Speaker 4: So let's start by talking a little bit about your
Speaker 4: role at IBM. What does a Chief Privacy and Trust
Speaker 4: officer actually do.
Speaker 5: It's a really dynamic profession and it's not a new profession,
Speaker 5: but the role has really changed. I mean, my role
Speaker 5: today is broader than just helping to ensure compliance with
Speaker 5: data protection laws globally. I'm also responsible for AI governance.
Speaker 5: I co chair or AI Ethics Board here at IBM,
Speaker 5: and for data clearance and data governance as well for
Speaker 5: the company. So I have both a compliance aspect to
Speaker 5: my role, really important on a global basis, but also
Speaker 5: help the business to competitively differentiate because really trust is
Speaker 5: a strategic advantage for IBM and a competitive differentiator as
Speaker 5: a company that's been responsibly managing the most sensitive data
Speaker 5: for our clients for more than a century now and
Speaker 5: helping to usher new technologies into the world with trust
Speaker 5: and transparency. And so that's also a key aspect of
Speaker 5: my role.
Speaker 4: And so you joined us here on smart Talks back
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one and you chatted with us about
Speaker 4: IBM's approach of building trust and transparency with AI. And
Speaker 4: that was only two years ago, but it almost feels
Speaker 4: like in eternity has happened in the field of AI
Speaker 4: since then, and so I'm curious how much has changed
Speaker 4: since you were here last time. We're the things you
Speaker 4: told us before, you know, are they still true? How
Speaker 4: are things changing?
Speaker 5: You're absolutely right, it feels like the world has changed
Speaker 5: really in the last two years. But the same fundamental
Speaker 5: principles and the same overall governance apply to IBM's program
Speaker 5: for Data Protection and Responsible AI that we talked about
Speaker 5: two years ago, and not much has changed there from
Speaker 5: our perspective. And the good thing is we've put these
Speaker 5: practices and this governance approach into place, and we have
Speaker 5: an established way of looking at these emerging technologies. As
Speaker 5: the technology evolves, the tech is more powerful, for sure,
Speaker 5: foundation models are vastly larger and more capable, and our
Speaker 5: creating in some respects new issues, but that just makes
Speaker 5: it all the more urgent to do what we've been
Speaker 5: doing and to put trust and transparency into place across
Speaker 5: the business to be accountable to those principles.
Speaker 4: And so our conversation today is really centered around this
Speaker 4: need for new AI regulation, and part of that regulation
Speaker 4: involves the mitigation of bias and This is something I
Speaker 4: think about a ton as a psychologist, right, you know,
Speaker 4: like my students and everyone who's interacting with AI is
Speaker 4: assuming that the kind of knowledge that they're getting from
Speaker 4: this kind of learning is accurate, right, But of course
Speaker 4: AI is only as good as the knowledge that's going in.
Speaker 4: And so talk to me a little bit about like
Speaker 4: why bias occurs in AI and the level of the
Speaker 4: problem that we're really dealing with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, obviously AI is based on data, right, It's
Speaker 5: trained with data, and that data could be biased in
Speaker 5: and of itself, and that's where issues could come up.
Speaker 5: They come up in the data, they could also come
Speaker 5: up in the output of the models themselves. So it's
Speaker 5: really important that you build bias consideration and bias testing
Speaker 5: into your product development cycle. And so what we've been
Speaker 5: thinking about here at IBM and doing we had some
Speaker 5: of our research teams delivered some of the very first
Speaker 5: toolkits to help detect bias years ago now, right, and
Speaker 5: deployed them to open source. And we have put into
Speaker 5: place for our developers here at IBM and Ethics by
Speaker 5: Design playbook that's sort of a step by step approach
Speaker 5: which also addresses very fully bias considerations, and we provide
Speaker 5: not only like here's a point when you should test
Speaker 5: for it and you consider it in the data, you
Speaker 5: have to measure it both at the data and the
Speaker 5: model level or the outcome level, and we provide guidance
Speaker 5: with respect to what tools can best be used to
Speaker 5: accomplish that. So it's a really important issue. It's one
Speaker 5: you can't just talk about. You have to provide essentially
Speaker 5: the technology and the capabilities and the guidance to enable
Speaker 5: people to test for it.
Speaker 4: Recently, you had this wonderful opportunity to head to Congress
Speaker 4: to talk about AI, and in your testimony before Congress,
Speaker 4: you mentioned that it's often said that innovation moves too
Speaker 4: fast for government to keep up. And this is something
Speaker 4: that I also worry about as a psychologist. Right our
Speaker 4: policy makers really understanding the issues that they're dealing with,
Speaker 4: And so I'm curious how you're approaching this challenge of
Speaker 4: adapting AI policies to keep up with the sort of
Speaker 4: rapid pace of all the advancements were in the AI
Speaker 4: technology itself.
Speaker 5: I think it's really critically important that you have foundational
Speaker 5: principles that applied to not only how you use technology,
Speaker 5: but whether you're going to use it in the first
Speaker 5: place and where you're going to use and apply it
Speaker 5: across your company. And then your program from a governance perspective,
Speaker 5: has to be agile. It has to be able to
Speaker 5: address emerging capabilities, new training methods, etc. And part of
Speaker 5: that involves helping to educate and instill and empower a
Speaker 5: trustworthy culture at a company so you can spot those
Speaker 5: issues so you can ask the right questions at the
Speaker 5: right time if you try. We talked about during the
Speaker 5: Senate hearing, and IBM's been talking for years about regulating
Speaker 5: the use, not the technology itself, because if you try
Speaker 5: to regulate technology, you're very quickly going to find out
Speaker 5: regulation will absolutely never keep up with that.
Speaker 4: And so in your testimony to Congress, you also talked
Speaker 4: about this idea of a precision regulation approach for AI.
Speaker 4: Tell me more about this. What is a precision regulation
Speaker 4: approach and why could that be so important.
Speaker 5: It's funny because I was able to share with Congress
Speaker 5: our precision regulation point of view in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: but that precision regulation point of view was published by
Speaker 5: IBM in twenty twenty so we have not changed our
Speaker 5: position that you should apply the tightest controls, the strictest
Speaker 5: regulatory requirements to the technology where the end use and
Speaker 5: risk of societal harm is the greatest. So that's essentially
Speaker 5: what it is. There's lots of AI technology that's used
Speaker 5: today that doesn't touch people, that's very low risk in nature.
Speaker 5: And even when you think about AI that delivers a
Speaker 5: movie recommendation versus AI that is used to diagnose cancer, right,
Speaker 5: there's very different implications associated with those two uses of
Speaker 5: the technology. And so essentially what precision regulation it is
Speaker 5: is apply different rules to different risks, right, more stringent
Speaker 5: regulation to the use cases with the greatest risk. And
Speaker 5: then also we build that out calling for things like
Speaker 5: transparency you see it today with content right, misinformation and
Speaker 5: the like. We believe that consumers should always know when
Speaker 5: they're interacting with an AI system, So be transparent, don't
Speaker 5: hydror AI clearly define the risks. So as a country,
Speaker 5: we need to have some clear guidance right and globally
Speaker 5: as well in terms of which uses of AI or
Speaker 5: higher risk where will apply higher and stricter regulation and
Speaker 5: have sort of a common understanding of what those high
Speaker 5: risk uses are and then demonstrate the impact in the
Speaker 5: cases of those higher risk uses. So companies who are
Speaker 5: using AI in spaces where they can impact people's legal rights,
Speaker 5: for example, should have to conduct an impact assessment that
Speaker 5: demonstrates that the technology isn't biased. So we've been pretty
Speaker 5: clear about apply that the most stringent regulation to the
Speaker 5: highest risk uses of AI.
Speaker 4: And so so far we've been talking about your congressional
Speaker 4: testimony in terms of, you know, the specific content that
Speaker 4: you talked about, But I'm just curious on a personal level,
Speaker 4: you know, what was that like right like, right now,
Speaker 4: it feels like at a policy level, like there's a
Speaker 4: kind of fever pitch going on with AI right now.
Speaker 4: You know, what did that feel like to kind of
Speaker 4: really have the opportunity to talk to policy makers and
Speaker 4: sort of influence what they're thinking about AI technologies like
Speaker 4: in the coming century.
Speaker 5: Perhaps I was really an honor to be able to
Speaker 5: do that and to be one of the first set
Speaker 5: of invitees to the first hearing. And what I learned
Speaker 5: from it essentially is, you know, really two things. The
Speaker 5: first is really the value of authenticity. So both as
Speaker 5: an individual and as a company, I was able to
Speaker 5: talk about what I do, you know, I need a
Speaker 5: lot of advanced prep, right, I talked about my job
Speaker 5: is what IBM has been putting in place for years now.
Speaker 5: So this isn't about creating something. This was just about
Speaker 5: showing up and being authentic. And we were invited for
Speaker 5: a reason. We were invited because we were one of
Speaker 5: the earliest companies in the AI technology space. We're the
Speaker 5: oldest technology company and we are trusted and that's an honor.
Speaker 5: And then the second thing I came away with was
Speaker 5: really how important this issue is to society. I don't
Speaker 5: think I appreciated it as much until following that experience.
Speaker 5: I had outreached from colleagues I hadn't worked with for years.
Speaker 5: I had outreach from family members who heard me on
Speaker 5: the radio. You know, my mother and my mother in
Speaker 5: law and my nieces and nephews and my friends of
Speaker 5: my kids were all like, oh, I get it, I
Speaker 5: get what you do.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's pretty cool, you know. So that was really
Speaker 5: probably the best and most impactful takeaway that I had.
Speaker 3: The mass adoption of generative AI at breakneck speed has
Speaker 3: spurred societies and governments around the world to get serious
Speaker 3: about regulating AI. For businesses, compliance is complex enough already,
Speaker 3: but throw an ever involving technology like AI into the mix,
Speaker 3: and compliance itself becomes an exercise in adaptability. As regulators
Speaker 3: seek greater accountability in how AI is used, businesses need
Speaker 3: help creating governance processes comprehensive enough to comply with the
Speaker 3: law but agile enough to keep up with the rapid
Speaker 3: rate of change in AI development. Regulatory scrutiny isn't the
Speaker 3: only consideration either responsible AI governance of business's ability to
Speaker 3: prove its AI models are transparent and explainable is also
Speaker 3: key to building trust with customers, regardless of industry. In
Speaker 3: the next part of their conversation, Laurie asked Christina what
Speaker 3: businesses SHO should consider when approaching AI governance. Let's listen.
Speaker 4: So it's a particular role that businesses are playing in
Speaker 4: AI governance, Like why is it so critical for businesses
Speaker 4: to be part of this?
Speaker 5: So I think it's really critically important that businesses understand
Speaker 5: the impacts that technology can have, both in making them
Speaker 5: better businesses, but the impacts that those technologies can have
Speaker 5: on the consumers that they are supporting. You know, businesses
Speaker 5: need to be deploying AI technology that is in alignment
Speaker 5: with the goals that they set for it, and that
Speaker 5: can be trusted. I think for us and for our clients,
Speaker 5: a lot of this comes back to trust in tech.
Speaker 5: If you deploy something that doesn't work, that hallucinates, that discriminates,
Speaker 5: that isn't transparent, where decisions can't be explained, then you
Speaker 5: are going to very rapidly erode the trust at best
Speaker 5: right of your clients and at worst for yourself if
Speaker 5: you're going to create legal and regulatory issues for yourself
Speaker 5: as well. So trusted technology is really important, and I
Speaker 5: think there's a lot of pressure on businesses today to
Speaker 5: move very rapidly and adopt technology. But if you do
Speaker 5: it without having a program of governance in place, you're
Speaker 5: really risking eroding that trust.
Speaker 4: So this is really where I think a strong AI
Speaker 4: governance comes in. Talk about from your perspective, how this
Speaker 4: really contributes to maintaining the trust that customers and stakeholders
Speaker 4: have in these technologies.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean you need to have a governance
Speaker 5: program because you need to understand that the technology, particularly
Speaker 5: in the AI space, that you are deploying, is explainable.
Speaker 5: You need to understand why it's making decisions and recommendations
Speaker 5: that it's making, and you need to be able to
Speaker 5: explain that to your consumers. I mean, you can't do
Speaker 5: that if you don't know where your data is coming from,
Speaker 5: what data are you using to train those models, if
Speaker 5: you don't have a program that manages the alignment of
Speaker 5: your AI models over time to make sure as a
Speaker 5: I learns and evolves over uses, which is in large
Speaker 5: part what makes it so beneficial that it stays in
Speaker 5: alignment with the objectives that you set for the technology
Speaker 5: over time. So you can't do that without a robust
Speaker 5: governance process in place. So we work with clients to
Speaker 5: share our own story here at IBM in terms of
Speaker 5: how we put that in place, but also in our
Speaker 5: consulting practice to help clients work with these new generative
Speaker 5: capabilities and foundation models and the like in order to
Speaker 5: put them to work for their business in a way
Speaker 5: that's going to be impactful to that business but at
Speaker 5: the same time be trusted.
Speaker 4: So now I wanted to turn a little bit towards
Speaker 4: watsonex governance, and so IBM recently announced their AI platform,
Speaker 4: Watson X, which will include a governance component. Could you
Speaker 4: tell us a little more about watsonex dot Governance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean before I do that, I'll just back
Speaker 5: up and talk about the full platform and then lean
Speaker 5: into to watson x because I think it's important to
Speaker 5: understand the delivery of a full suite of capabilities, to
Speaker 5: get data, to train models, and then to govern them
Speaker 5: over their life cycle. All of these things are really important.
Speaker 5: From the onset you need to make sure that you have,
Speaker 5: you know, for our watsonex dot AI for example, that's
Speaker 5: the studio to train new foundation models and generative AI
Speaker 5: and machine learning capabilities, and we are populating that studio
Speaker 5: with some IBM trained foundation models which we're curating and
Speaker 5: tailoring more specifically for enterprises. So that's really important. It
Speaker 5: comes back to the point I made earlier about business
Speaker 5: trust and the need, you know, to have enterprise ready
Speaker 5: technologies in the AI space. And then the watsonex dot
Speaker 5: data is a fit for purpose data or a data lake,
Speaker 5: and then watsonex dot gov. So that's a particular component
Speaker 5: of the platform that my team and the AI Ethics
Speaker 5: Board has really worked closely with the product team on developing,
Speaker 5: and we're using it internally here in the Chief Privacy
Speaker 5: Office as well to help us govern our own uses
Speaker 5: of AI technology and our compliance program here, and it
Speaker 5: essentially helps to notify you if a model becomes biased
Speaker 5: or gets out of alignment as you're using it over time.
Speaker 5: So companies are going to need these capabilities. I mean
Speaker 5: they need them today to deliver technologies with trust. They'll
Speaker 5: need them tomorrow to comply with regulation, which is on
Speaker 5: the horizon.
Speaker 4: And I think compliance becomes even more complex when you
Speaker 4: consider international data protection laws and regulations. Honestly, I don't
Speaker 4: know how anyone on any company's legal team is keeping
Speaker 4: up with us these days. But my question for you
Speaker 4: is really how can businesses develop a strategy to maintain
Speaker 4: compliance and to deal with it in this ever changing landscape.
Speaker 5: It's increasingly more challenging. In fact, I saw statistic just
Speaker 5: this morning that the regulatory obligations on companies have increased
Speaker 5: something like seven hundred times in the last twenty years.
Speaker 5: So it really is a huge focus area for companies.
Speaker 5: You have to have a process in place in order
Speaker 5: to do that, and it's not easy, particularly for a
Speaker 5: company like IBM that it has a presence in over
Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy countries around the world. There is
Speaker 5: more than one hundred and fifty comprehensive privacy regulations. There
Speaker 5: are regulations of non personal data, there are AI regulations emerging,
Speaker 5: So you really need an operational approach to it in
Speaker 5: order to stay compliant. But one of the things we
Speaker 5: do is we set a baseline. And a lot of
Speaker 5: companies do this as well. So we define a privacy baseline,
Speaker 5: we define an AI baseline, and we ensure then as
Speaker 5: a result of that that there are very few deviances
Speaker 5: because it incorporates in that baseline. So that's one of
Speaker 5: the ways we do it. Other companies, I think are
Speaker 5: similarly situated in terms of doing that. But again, it
Speaker 5: is a real challenge for global companies. It's one of
Speaker 5: the reasons why we advocate for as much alignment as
Speaker 5: possible on the international realm as well as nationally here
Speaker 5: in the US, as much alignment as possible to make
Speaker 5: compliance easier for easier, and not just because companies want
Speaker 5: an easy way to comply. But the harder it is,
Speaker 5: the less likely there will be compliance. And it's not
Speaker 5: the objective of anybody, governments, companies, consumers to have to
Speaker 5: set legal obligations that companies simply can't meet.
Speaker 4: So what advice would you give to other companies who
Speaker 4: are looking to rethink or strengthen their approach to AI governance.
Speaker 5: Think you need to start with, as we did, foundational principles,
Speaker 5: and you need to start making decisions about what technology
Speaker 5: you're going to deploy and what technology you're not, What
Speaker 5: are you going to use it for, and what aren't
Speaker 5: you going to use it for? And then when you
Speaker 5: do use it, align to those principles. That's really important.
Speaker 5: Formalize a program, have someone within the organization, whether it's
Speaker 5: the chief privacy officer, whether it's some other role, a
Speaker 5: chief AI ethics officer, but have an accountable individual and
Speaker 5: accountable organization. Do a maturity assessment, figure out where you
Speaker 5: are and where you need to be, and really start,
Speaker 5: you know, putting it into place today. Don't wait for
Speaker 5: regulation to apply directly to your business because it'll be
Speaker 5: too late.
Speaker 4: So Smart Talks features new creators, these visionaries like yourself
Speaker 4: who are creatively applying technology in business to drive change.
Speaker 4: I'm curious if you see yourself as creative.
Speaker 5: You know, I definitely do. I mean, you need to
Speaker 5: be creative when you're working in an industry that evolves
Speaker 5: so very quickly. So you know, I started with IBM
Speaker 5: when we were primarily a hardware company, right, and we've
Speaker 5: changed our business so significantly over the years. And the
Speaker 5: issues that are raised with respect to each new technology,
Speaker 5: whether it be cloud, whether it be AI now where
Speaker 5: we're seeing a ton of issues, or you look at
Speaker 5: emergent issues in the space of things like neurotechnologies and
Speaker 5: quantum computers. You have to be strategic and you have
Speaker 5: to be creative and thinking about how you can adapt
Speaker 5: agilely quickly a company to an environment that is changing
Speaker 5: so quickly.
Speaker 4: And with this transformation happening at such a rapid pace.
Speaker 4: Do you think creativity plays a role in how you
Speaker 4: think about and implement specifically a trustworthy AI strategy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, think it does, because again, it comes back to
Speaker 5: these capabilities, and there are ways, I guess how you
Speaker 5: define creativity could could be different, right, But I'm thinking
Speaker 5: of creativity in the sense of sort of agility and
Speaker 5: strategic vision and creative problem solving. I think that's really
Speaker 5: important in the world that we're in right now, being
Speaker 5: able to creatively problem solve with new issues that are
Speaker 5: rising sort of every day.
Speaker 4: And so how do you see the role of chief
Speaker 4: privacy officer evolving in the future as AI technology continues
Speaker 4: to advance, Like, what step should CPOs take to stay
Speaker 4: ahead of all these changes that are come in their way.
Speaker 5: So the role is evolving in most companies, I would
Speaker 5: say pretty rapidly. Many companies are looking to chief privacy
Speaker 5: officers who are ready understand the data that's being used
Speaker 5: in the organization and have programs to ensure compliance with
Speaker 5: laws that require you to manage that data in accordance
Speaker 5: with day to protection laws and the like. It's a
Speaker 5: natural place and position for AI responsibility, and so I
Speaker 5: think what's happening to a lot of chief privacy officers
Speaker 5: is they're being asked to take on this AI governance
Speaker 5: responsibility for companies and if not take it on, at
Speaker 5: least play a very key role working with other parts
Speaker 5: of the business in AI governance. So that really is changing.
Speaker 5: And if chief privacy officers are in companies who maybe
Speaker 5: haven't started thinking about AI yet, they should, So I
Speaker 5: would encourage them to look at different resources that are
Speaker 5: available already in AI governance space. For example, the International
Speaker 5: Association of Privacy Professionals, which is the seventy five thousand
Speaker 5: member professional body for the Profession of Chief Privacy Officers
Speaker 5: just recently launched an AI Governance Initiative and an AI
Speaker 5: Governance Certification program. I sit on their advisory board. But
Speaker 5: that's just emblematic of the fact that the field is
Speaker 5: changing so rapidly.
Speaker 4: And so, you know, speaking of rapid change, when you're
Speaker 4: back here on smart Talks in twenty twenty one, you
Speaker 4: said that the future of AI will be more transparent
Speaker 4: and more trustworthy. You know, what do you see the
Speaker 4: next five to ten years holding. You know, when you're
Speaker 4: back on smart Talks in you know, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: you know twenty thirty, you know what are we going
Speaker 4: to be talking about when it comes to AI technology
Speaker 4: and governance.
Speaker 5: So I try to be an optimist, right and I
Speaker 5: said that two years ago, and I think we're seeing
Speaker 5: it now come into fruition. And there will be requirements,
Speaker 5: whether they're coming from the US, whether they're coming from Europe,
Speaker 5: whether they're just coming from voluntary adoption by clients of
Speaker 5: things like the NISS Risk Management Framework, really important voluntary frameworks.
Speaker 5: You're going to have to adopt transparent and explainable practices
Speaker 5: in your uses of AI. So I do see that happening.
Speaker 5: And in the next five to ten years, boy, I
Speaker 5: think we'll see more research into trust and techniques because
Speaker 5: we don't really know, for example, how to water mark.
Speaker 5: We were calling for things like watermarking. There'll be more
Speaker 5: research into how to do that. I think you'll see
Speaker 5: you regulation that's specifically going to require those types of things.
Speaker 5: So I think again, I think the regulation is going
Speaker 5: to drive research. It's going to drive research into these
Speaker 5: areas that will help ensure that we can deliver new capabilities,
Speaker 5: generated capabilities and the like with trust and explainability.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much Christina for joining me on smart
Speaker 4: Talks to talk about AI and governance.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 3: To unlock the transformative growth possible with artificial intelligence. Businesses
Speaker 3: need to know what they wish to grow into first.
Speaker 3: Like Christina said, the best way forward in the AI
Speaker 3: future is for businesses to figure out their own foundational
Speaker 3: principles around using the technology, drawing on those principles to
Speaker 3: apply AI in a way that's ethically consistent with their
Speaker 3: mission and complies with I legal frameworks built to hold
Speaker 3: the technology accountable. As AI adoption grows more and more widespread,
Speaker 3: so too will the expectation from consumers and regulators that
Speaker 3: businesses use it responsibly. Investing independable AI governance is a
Speaker 3: way for businesses to lay the foundations for technology that
Speaker 3: their customers can trust while rising to the challenge of
Speaker 3: increasing regulatory complexity. Though the emergence of AI does complicate
Speaker 3: an already tough compliance landscape, businesses now face a creative
Speaker 3: opportunity to set a precedent for what accountability in AI
Speaker 3: looks like and rethink what it means to deploy trustworthy
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence. I'm Malcolm Gladwell. This is a paid advertisement
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