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As AI infuses virtually every aspect of our lives, a reckless deployment of a new model could result in profound risks, mishaps and misuses. AI expert and consultant Juliette Powell, co-author of “The AI Dilemma,” brings organizations a pragmatic approach to this complex issue, offering seven key principles for ensuring machine learning upholds human flourishing. Powell illuminates how organizations can implement these principles, learning to balance risk against reward and leverage AI effectively, even in sectors like education and healthcare. Drawing on her vast experience as both a researcher and a practitioner, Powell provides real-world examples, best practices and emerging trends to deliver strategic frameworks for deploying AI responsibly, transforming potential risks into powerful catalysts for innovation. Leaders and teams emerge equipped with a deep understanding of how to navigate the AI dilemma, turning it into an unprecedented opportunity for their organization.

Rapid AI adoption is forcing leaders to consider how they can make responsible, strategic decisions about its use and potential misuse. AI consultant Juliette Powell, co-author of “The AI Dilemma,” offers a powerful antidote – the “calculus of intentional risk.” This approach, a mix of intuitive risk-reward evaluation and a granular assessment similar to work done by insurance actuaries, empowers leaders to navigate AI’s complexities confidently. By leveraging real-world examples, Powell explores how leaders can embed these practices within their organizations, ensuring they seize the right opportunities at the right time without compromising safety. Engaging with Powell provides leaders an accessible system for risk management, catering to everyone from C-suite executives to AI developers. Leaders will emerge with a potent risk management tool to use as they traverse the volatile terrain of AI, facilitating a safe yet ambitious journey into the future of technology.

How can organizations ensure the responsible utilization of the new, powerful AI tools changing the face of business today? Renowned AI consultant Juliette Powell offers an innovative solution – “creative friction.” This approach encourages the integration of diverse voices, not just in terms of race, sex or gender, but also educational backgrounds, neurodiversity and cultural perspectives. Drawing from her extensive experience at the crossroads of responsible technology and business, Powell demonstrates the importance of this diversity in reducing AI risks. This strategy, inspired by successful Wall Street teams, fuels better decision-making and profitability. Through practical guidance and real-world examples, Powell helps leaders infuse this powerful strategy into their AI teams, ensuring both the ethical deployment of AI and its potential use as a tool for driving innovation and progress in an increasingly automated world.

As AI shapes our world in both obvious and hidden ways, a lurking danger persists – unconscious bias. Influential AI consultant and former Miss Canada, Juliette Powell, sheds light on this pervasive, yet often overlooked, concern. Stemming from her own revelations about personal bias, as told in her standout TED Talk, she explores the insidious influence of unacknowledged prejudices on AI. Unconscious biases are not only shaping our perceptions and interactions, but are also being ‘learned’ by AI, with potential for amplifying and perpetuating societal disparities. Using captivating personal narratives and eye-opening examples, Powell unravels this complex issue, underscoring the urgent need for awareness and intervention. By recognizing our own biases, we can prevent them from permeating AI systems and perpetuating harmful stereotypes. In this critical conversation, Powell guides us towards a future where AI is developed and deployed responsibly, consciously addressing and countering biases, thus paving the way for a more inclusive and equitable world.

As the use of automated systems continues to spread, many fall into “automation complacency.” In this revealing presentation, Juliette Powell, AI expert, consultant and co-founder of Kleiner Powell International, explains how automation complacency leads to consumers having an illusion of control over automated systems that doesn’t in fact exist. When an automated system doesn’t do what a user expects, trust is damaged. Drawing from her new co-authored book, “The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology,” Powell outlines the steps organizations should take now to build trust rather than erode it. Audiences will gain a new understanding of the importance of trust as well as practical steps to take to shore up trust both inside and outside of an organization.

With the unprecedented pace of technology development, uncertain economic upheaval and supply chain disruptions today, effective, strategic leaders must be prepared for many different future scenarios. In this eye-opening presentation, Juliette Powell, AI expert, consultant, co-founder of Kleiner Powell International and co-author of “The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology,” explains how the current and future impacts of technologies like AI encompass everything from how businesses and governments operate to the future of work. Audiences will gain expert guidance as Powell illustrates how organizations across all sectors can prepare for a number of potential possibilities as well as the surprises that can come along with them.

Generative content creators. Self-driving vehicles. Predictive analytics. In the right hands, they’re beneficial to all. In the wrong hands, they amplify human bias, enable dangerous frauds, and harm vulnerable people. Artificial intelligence is a mirror to humanity: it is forcing us to confront our worst and become our best. As decision makers and technology users, we need to use it to gain real control — instead of the illusion of control that machine learning often delivers.

The book co-authored by Juliette Powell, “The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology” (August 2023), integrates the perspectives of engineering, business, government, and social justice to help make sense of autonomous and automated algorithmic systems. Presentations address crucial issues like unconscious bias, data misuse, accountability, and the calculus of intentional risk. Using a wealth of wide-ranging examples, the 7 principles draw on Powell’s research at Columbia University and emerging regulations like Europe’s AI Act.

In “33 Million People in the Room,” Juliette Powell delivers a practical guide to social networking that empowers readers to build social and cultural capital in view of increasing financial capital. Weaving together wide-ranging case studies from technology and media companies to leaders in finance, retail, gaming, electronics, telecommunications, consumer goods, and beyond. These real-world examples make a compelling case for Powell’s notion that social capital makes sound business sense and when successfully established can translate into capital in the bank.

Powell can discuss any of the following topics related to “33 Million People in the Room”:

• The New Cool Kids

• Viral Video and Themes

• Overview of Obama’s winning online strategy (it worked for him, now it can work for you!)

• TED Conference: Ideas Worth Spreading

• Rebranding Through Social Networks

• Social Capital + Cultural Capital

• How your ‘Googlability’ affects your Financial ability

• The New Seat of Influence

• Microcelebrity: Internet Fame and Influence

• Co-Creation Networks

• The New Rules of Leadership

• The New Metrics for Success