Tracey Spicer AM: AI integrity, bias by design, and the leadership responsibility we can't afford to ignore

About this episode

Tracey Spicer AM discusses AI integrity, bias in technology, and the leadership responsibilities in addressing these issues.

In this episode of The Wisdom Of … Show, host Simon Bowen speaks with Tracey Spicer AM - journalist, broadcaster, author, and one of Australia's clearest voices on the intersection of technology, equity, and the future of responsible business. A multiple Walkley Award winner, Order of Australia recipient, Sydney Peace Prize recipient alongside Tarana Burke, and author of Man Made (winner, Australian Business Book Awards Social Responsibility category), Tracey has spent three decades in Australia's public life, and the last several years investigating the most significant design flaw in our emerging technological future … the bias being quietly written into the systems that will shape it. Simon builds a live visual model in the episode, the AI Integrity Model, mapping the three-part framework for moving AI systems from bias to equity across data sets, algorithms, and machine learning. Episode breakdown 00:00 Welcome to The Wisdom Of … Show and introduction of Tracey Spicer AM 03:00 Growing up on the outskirts of Brisbane: what social justice looks like as a lived value 08:30 "Give it a go. What's the worst that could happen?" The philosophy behind a 30-year career 11:45 The Lady…

People in this episode

Host: Simon Bowen

Guest: Tracey Spicer AM

Topics covered

• AI integrity
• bias in technology
• leadership responsibility
• social justice
• equity in business
• MeToo movement

Keywords

• AI integrity
• bias
• leadership
• social justice
• technology
• equity
• MeToo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Australian Business Book Awards, MeToo

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