The founder of "I Love AI," a community spanning ages 12 to 85, argues that responsible AI must be woven into how we build software and companies, not treated as a checklist. Microsoft's new responsible-AI agent shows how industry is starting to operationalize this at scale, though the speaker worries about leaving people behind as AI advances.
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Oh my goodness. Well, good. I'll start with concern. So, I run a very large community. It's called I Love AI. I usually wear a shirt that says I Love AI, and it pre-frames the audience typically to have a good conversation. But what I've uncovered is that there are anywhere from 12-year-olds to 85-year-olds, farmers to metaphysicians, and they are all desperate to understand, like, what do you mean the world is changing and how do I just keep my head above water. And in a world where I have experienced AI to generate massive affluence for organizations that I've implemented it for, and responsible AI has become like water in a wave, like it's not a checklist you sign off on. It's not like you said, it's not this framework that you adopt. It's like the way you end up thinking, the way you are, the way you exist, the way you build software, the way you build companies. It will need to be responsible. And the way that we do that, luckily, is that companies have done this now. Microsoft just launched a responsible AI agent based on 10 years of us doing it manually, and now they've built a system trained on that data. The benefit of thisโ I think my biggest concern is that we will not bring everyone with us as we take this journey, that we will leave people behind even if we can bring them with us as quickly as we can, as possible. But what I'm most hopeful about is that I've never seen a more eager audience. I've never seen a more eager society to want to learn, to change, and not to Kill ourselves.