Lightning Talk: Building Trustworthy AI – Guardrails for a responsible future
Presenter: Ashish Vaidya, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon
Abstract:
As AI rapidly transforms our world, ensuring its responsible development is of paramount importance. This talk explores the frameworks and practices to guide the creation of a responsible AI and introducing necessary guardrails to prevent its misuse. We’ll delve into various key principles like fairness, transparency, and accountability, and how to keep these in focus throughout the AI development lifecycle. Discover how the guardrails can mitigate risks.
Presenter Bio:
Ashish Vaidya, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon
Ashish is a Principal Software Engineer at Amazon. He has over 16 years of industry experience, and possesses a proven track record of designing, developing, and delivering high-quality solutions across a wide range of technologies. He is an expert in employing cloud technologies to build high scale, high availability, and low latency distributed systems, and improving their performance. In his current role, he is focused on designing and developing the future of Alexa – Amazon’s Voice AI, by employing the cutting edge developments in the world of AI.
Beyond his work at Amazon, he actively shares his knowledge through tech talks, has co-authored a software career guide, and has four patents granted by USPTO with two more under review.