An Industry Benchmark for Data Fairness: Sony’s Alice Xiang
From Me, Myself, and AI by MIT Sloan Management Review
March 10, 2026 · 34 min · Season 13 · Episode 1
About this episode
Alice Xiang discusses the challenges of implementing responsible AI and the importance of governance in AI ethics at Sony.
On today’s episode, Sam talks with Alice Xiang, global head of AI governance at Sony and lead research scientist for AI ethics at Sony AI, about what it actually takes to put responsible artificial intelligence into practice at scale. Alice shares how Sony moved early on AI ethics and why governance, not just principles, is now the real challenge as AI spreads across products and workflows. The conversation dives into FHIBE, Sony’s publicly available and ethically sourced benchmark for evaluating bias in computer vision, and why measuring fairness is often harder than fixing it. Along the way, they tackle data consent, “data nihilism,” and the very real risks of deploying biased systems in everyday and high-stakes contexts. Read the episode transcript here. Guest bio: As the global head of AI governance at Sony, Alice Xiang leads the team guiding the establishment of AI governance policies and governance frameworks across the company’s business units. She’s also the lead research scientist for AI ethics at Sony AI, which is working on cutting-edge sociotechnical research to enable the development of more responsible AI solutions. Xiang holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, a…
People in this episode
Host: Sam
Guest: Alice Xiang
Topics covered
- AI governance
- data fairness
- AI ethics
- bias in computer vision
- responsible AI
- data consent
Keywords
- AI governance
- data fairness
- bias
- computer vision
- AI ethics
- data consent
- responsible AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Sony, Sony AI, Yale Law School, Oxford University, Harvard University
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