AI at an Inflection Point with Ashok Srivastava

AI is poised to have profound and far-reaching impacts on society, industry, and governance. Already, sophisticated AI systems can generate human-like text, create art, and even assist in complex decision-making processes across myriad industries. 

In a rapidly changing AI landscape, an explosion of data, advancements in computing power, and algorithmic improvements are accelerating AI development and deployment—and challenging today’s engineers to manage the intersection of innovation and ethical governance like never before.

This talk delves into how Intuit is applying deep domain expertise and human talent across multiple disciplines to responsibly build products for 100 million consumer and small and midsize business customers around the world. 

The talk provides insights into the responsible AI and data governance principles that guide ethical development of AI-driven applications, a generative AI operating system (GenOS) to democratize development across the company, and the critical role of non-engineering disciplines in shaping responsible AI practices.

Bio: Ashok N. Srivastava, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer at Intuit. He is responsible for setting the vision and direction for large-scale machine learning and artificial intelligence across the enterprise.

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The Moulakis Lecture Series on Responsible Engineering seeks to inspire students to start thinking today about the immense power of engineering and their active role in shaping its future.

Lucky Vidmar and his wife Aubrey Ardema have made possible the Moulakis Lecture Series within the Herbst Program to honor Athanasios "Thanasi" Moulakis, Vidmar's friend and mentor, who was also his teacher in four separate Herbst courses.