Ética, governança e dados para o bem na AI & Big Data Expo

AI is more than a trend and it’s also not a specialist space anymore. This year, the topic was embedded across the tech conference calendar in London—with every event packed full of people keen to learn and share their experiences.

The AI & Big Data Expo stood out for its great mixture of speakers, not only targeting people working within data, but making the topics feel completely accessible to somebody like me, who isn’t a data scientist by background. As the CEO of an infrastructure charity, I know our beneficiaries don’t necessarily work closely with data, or hold it at the forefront of their minds, so it was very interesting to see how AI and big data impacts a diverse range of different sectors, and how they employ and deploy different strategies to work with its new challenges. 

I especially enjoyed the talks focused on ethics and governance, which resonate with our beneficiaries and the challenges that they face. What’s interesting is that there seems to be a real drive to ensure that ethics is baked into AI strategies moving forward. It’s very heartening that ethics is being talked about at this early stage – that it isn’t being ignored as it may have been when past technologies developed as quickly.

One talk tackled governance, and how governments are still playing catch up. There seems to be an overarchi