AI needs to be inclusive by design – here’s how the NHS, Microsoft and GoFibre think it can be done

AI is having a dramatic impact on the workforce, reshaping roles, improving productivity, and in some cases causing job losses. As companies transform for the AI era, new challenges are emerging, such as eliminating bias, alongside new opportunities.

At Tech Show London, an all-female panel of AI developers discussed how to ensure diversity and inclusion are an integral part of AI technologies, and how current problems can be overcome.

Shifting DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) away from being a tick-box exercise is an important step in ensuring AI is inclusive by design, according to Taonga Banda, Cloud Solution Architect, Data & AI at Microsoft, says:

When you talk about diversity, when you talk about inclusion, a lot of the times organizations will consider it at the end, or after something's already been built, and now something's gone wrong, and now we need to change things.

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