Unlocking AI: Leading Where Equity Meets Engineering

27 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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An engineer discusses using AI to address two problems: filling the engineering talent shortage through design augmentation, and analyzing how infrastructure projects have harmed Black, Hispanic/Latino, and low-income communities. AI becomes a tool for equity-focused engineering.

Well, it's been quite, quite a lot of progress. So question number 2 is, I know leaders are learners. What are you learning right now?
What am I learning right now? What am I not learning right now? I'm gonna be like everybody else. I'm learning AI. Actually, I'm, I'm learning AI in a different way. And what I mean by that, We're trying to understand better with the engineering talent shortage, how do we leverage AI for engineering design? We know a lot of infrastructure work negatively impacts Black communities, Hispanic, Latino communities, socioeconomically challenged communities. How do we take data that is harmful and has been harmful for generations