DEI MIA in new Meta AI advisory group

It’s a wake-up call for any organization on how not to set up such an advisory group, she said. “They need to be representative of a variety of functions so it cannot just be all from one business unit. We need to see compliance, legal, HR, procurement and technology teams and they have to be diverse in the type of function they do and definitely diverse in perspectives. We need to see a balance of perspectives from race, gender and all those types of things, and it also has to be a thoughtful exercise.”

It is paramount, she said, that members of councils or internal groups created to govern AI actually have stature to make decisions and authority to direct things as they see fit from a responsible AI perspective.

Advancing AI

A Gartner research paper released earlier this month, How to Advance AI Without Sacrificing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, noted that the rapid uptake of AI, along with biases inherent in AI models used, is affecting enterprise diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, skills development, and talent acquisition, and ultimately undermining workplace diversity.