Inclusive Innovation with Hiwot Tesfaye

Hiwot Tesfaye disputes the notion of AI givers and takers, challenges innovation as an import, highlights untapped global potential, and charts a more inclusive course. 

Hiwot and Kimberly discuss the two camps myth of inclusivity; finding innovation everywhere; meaningful AI adoption and diffusion; limitations of imported AI; digital colonialism; low-resource languages and illiterate LLMs; an Icelandic success story; situating AI in time and place; employment over automation; capacity and skill building; skeptical delight and making the case for multi-lingual, multi-cultural AI. 
Hiwot Tesfaye is a Technical Advisor in Microsoft’s Office of Responsible AI and a Loomis Council Member at the Stimson Center where she helped launch the Global Perspectives: Responsible AI Fellowship
 
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Creators and Guests

Kimberly Nevala
Host
Kimberly Nevala
Strategic advisor at SAS
Hiwot Tesfaye
Guest
Hiwot Tesfaye
Technical Advisor, Microsoft's Office of Responsible Al
Inclusive Innovation with Hiwot Tesfaye
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