The Business Integrity School

Lukas Biewald, former founder and CEO of Figure Eight, and current founder and CEO of Weights and Biases, sits down with Cindy Moehring to discuss his experience and efforts to better the future of AI and machine learning. The pair discusses Figure Eight’s improvements of training data, along with Weights and Biases advancements of human-in-the-loop systems and versioning models to build models faster and better. They rounded out their discussion with a brief talk of inclusion and women in STEM.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• Read more about Appen acquiring Figure Eight here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/10/appen-acquires-figure-eight/
• Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/weights-biases-raises-new-capital-as-developer-tools-remain-a-venture-focus-ml-matures/
• Learn more about Lukas Biewald’s podcast, Gradient Dissent here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gradient-dissent/id1504567418
• Listen to “Daphne Koller - Digital Biology and the Next Epoch of Science” on the Gradient Dissent podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daphne-koller-digital-biology-and-the-next-epoch-of-science/id1504567418?i=1000509701513
• Listen to “Emily M. Bender - Language Models and Linguistics” on the Gradient Dissent podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emily-m-bender-language-models-and-linguistics/id1504567418?i=1000534822471
• Listen to the Lex Fridman Podcast here: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/
• Take free courses at fast.ai here: https://www.fast.ai

Join in as Cindy Moehring talks with Wilson Pang about designing responsible AI systems from conception to deployment in a world where technology moves incredibly fast. With an expansive background at CTrip, eBay, and IBM, Pang is now the Chief Technology Officer at Appen, a leading technology platform that powers other companies with AI globally. Wilson is also the co-author of Real World AI, with Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• Real World AI: https://appen.com/real-world-ai/
• Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger podcast episode on TheBIS: https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/blog/product-management-and-tech-ethics-with-alyssa-simpson-rochwerger.php
• Google AI Principles Blog: https://ai.google/principles/
• Resourceful AI Resources | Microsoft Blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai-resources
• Facebook Five Pillars of Responsible AI: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/facebooks-five-pillars-of-responsible-ai/

Cindy Moehring is joined by Jerry Jones, EVP and Chief Ethics and Legal Officer of LiveRamp, a data enablement platform. As a former Head of State, Jones is also a Special Advisor to Club de Madrid, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting democracy and change in the international community.

They discuss the ways that LiveRamp handles their data stewardship through data security and data ethics. Likewise, Jones discusses the benefits of a comprehensive data law on the federal level, and how private companies are taking the initiative.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• Apple's New Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/
• AI Superpowers: https://www.aisuperpowers.com
• The Age of AI: And Our Human Future: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/henry-a-kissinger/the-age-of-ai/9780316273800/
• The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Wires-of-War/Jacob-Helberg/9781982144432
• The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-silken-thread-9780197555583?cc=us&lang=en&

Wendell Wallach, renowned bioethicist, author, and Senior Fellow of the Carnegie Council, joins Cindy Moehring to discuss trending ethical concerns of emerging technologies including AI, bioethics, and the metaverse. The conversations covers the morality of machines, big data, scientific advances brought on by AI, autonomous machines, and the future of the metaverse.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• Solving the Protein Folding Problem with AlphaFold: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
• Neuromancer by William Gibson: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/neuromancer-william-gibson/1100623188
• Wendell Wallach’s Fortune Magazine Editorial “We Can’t Walk Blindly Into the Metaverse”: https://fortune.com/2021/11/24/metaverse-meaning-future-meta-zuckerberg-microsoft-meta-carnegie-ai-ethics/
• A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig: https://www.vitalsource.com/products/artificial-intelligence-stuart-russell-peter-norvig-v9780134671932
• The Dangerous Master by Wendell Wallach: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/wendell-wallach/a-dangerous-master/9780465058624/

Rama Akkiraju, an IBM Fellow, IBM Academy Member, IBM Master Inventor, and Director of IBM’s Watson Division, is a pioneer in applying AI to solve real world problems.

She sits down with Cindy Moehring to discuss Akkiraju’s mission of “enabling natural, personal and compassionate conversations between computers and humans.”

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• Fueling Possibilities: Welcome to the Positivity Pump - Chevrolet: https://youtu.be/Lgnq6xzkpk8
• Couriers: Build Skills with Online Courses from Top Institutions: https://www.coursera.org
• arXiv: Free Distribution Service for Scholarly Articles: https://arxiv.org

Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger, co-author of Real World AI and Director of Product Management at Blue Shield California, sits down with Cindy Moehring to explain the difficulties and benefits of managing engineers as someone without an extensive background in technology.

Rochwerger and Moehring also discuss the harms of unbalanced data sets in creating AI, the art of raising concerns before product launch, and the importance of macro and micro thinking.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• YouTube’s Transparency Report: https://transparencyreport.google.com/youtube-policy/removals?hl=en
• How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan: https://svpg.com/inspired-how-to-create-products-customers-love/
• Coded Bias by Shalini Kantayya: https://www.codedbias.com/

Sam Charrington, software engineer, entrepreneur and TWIML podcast host joins Cindy Moehring and sheds light on what lies behind the tech buzzwords.

The conversation covers how machine learning works, the contextual and inherent risks that exist, the need for diversity in tech, reimagining the link between labor and livelihood, and start ups to watch.            

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/     

Links from the episode:

https://twimlai.com/      

https://twimlai.com/ethics-bias-and-ai-twiml-episode-playlist/     

Cindy Moehring chats with Hal Daumé, senior principal researcher at Microsoft and professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, to explore the intersection of ethics and technology. Their discussion covers racial bias in artificial intelligence, the complexities of ethical machine learning, and who is responsible for ethical oversight at large tech firms.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from the episode:

Stanford’s “The Race Gap in Speech Recognition Technology”: https://fairspeech.stanford.edu/

Microsoft’s AI Fairness Checklist: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/ai-fairness-checklist/

AI Now Institute: https://ainowinstitute.org/

Coded Bias by Shalini Kantayya: https://www.codedbias.com/

Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin: https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology

Host Cindy Moehring and University of Arkansas professor Mary Lacity chat on this new episode of the BIS podcast. Join in as the two talk about the technologies changing what it means to be human, metaverse experiences, ethics surrounding digital heath statuses, and the new age of “surveillance capitalism.”

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

• “Can Computer Based Human-Likeness Endanger Humanness?” by Mary Lacity: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-019-09969-z
• Decentraland Metaverse: https://decentraland.org/
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1541758005/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiA78aNBhAlEiwA7B76p36WJKrTqMBsWDFyCD4MrBlGkduXddPL_5gvmRmb6oTinynztB4-DxoCCegQAvD_BwE&hvadid=267919914477&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9027222&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1087072417866285299&hvtargid=kwd-460543937972&hydadcr=20618_10167038&keywords=the+age+of+surveillance+capitalism&qid=1639076567&sr=8-1
• The Social Dilemma: https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: https://www.netflix.com/title/70158329

Cindy Moehring chats with Peter Singer, strategist at New America, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and principal at Useful Fiction LLC. They cover topics such as social media as a battlespace, the weaponization of information, and strategies for entities to combat online misinformation.

Learn more about the Business Integrity Leadership Initiative by visiting our website at https://walton.uark.edu/business-integrity/

Links from episode:

On War by Carl von Clausewitz: https://www.amazon.com/War-Carl-von-Clausewitz/dp/1469947021

Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer: https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743

Books by P.W. Singer: https://www.pwsinger.com/books-2/

Cyber Citizen Initiative: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/cyber-citizenship-initiative/