In this Acceleration Economy Digital CIO Summit Moment, excerpted from the Aaron Back-led session on ethical artificial intelligence (AI) on April 4th, Workday VP of Product and Engineering and Head of AI & Machine Learning Shane Luke discusses his company’s approach to participating and helping shape regulations around AI and its implementation and use.
Highlights
00:05 — Shane says that Workday has people representing it at the federal level in both the EU and the U.S., and they are helping to shape regulations around AI.
00:32 — Regarding regulations and best practices around operationalizing AI, Shane says that Workday is taking the approach of leading out and actually being a part of influencing those regulations in a direction that’s in line with the principles that it has already published around the responsible and ethical use of AI.
00:46 — Even though Workday is a big company, “the weight we hold is outsized for our size,” Shane says, “because we hold people data for all of the big companies around.”
01:15 — This is Workday’s customer base. As such, it’s important that Workday has a voice in shaping regulations and principles around operationalizing AI because it’ll be the company doing AI and machine learning on data from the workforce.
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