Transcript
A (0:00)
Foreign. Welcome to Building AI Boston. Today, our esteemed guest is Jansu Janja. She's the director of Responsible AI Practice and an associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University. Today we're going to be talking about all things ethical AI and why academia matters more than ever. For this founder and director of the AI Ethics Lab, welcome to the show, John Sue.
B (0:33)
Thank you so much, Anna. Thank you.
A (0:35)
Oh my goodness. Even your background is like, mind blowing. I mean, I can't wait to talk about this. Cara. I don't think we've really broken down ethics with an expert like John Sue.
C (0:48)
Yeah, yeah, that's right. And you know, I imagine we're not going to get through it all today either, because it is a complicated subject. Right.
A (0:57)
Well, thank you for being with us. And you know, I, I'm honored because you have been recognized among the 30 influential women advancing AI in Boston alone and 100 brilliant women in AI ethics. Is it true that you even work with the UN and many other privileges, my friend.
B (1:15)
Yes, I, I worked with un, Interpol, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization. I mean, basically all the. Well, I try to help whoever I can in terms of putting ethics into practice in the bigger, you know, bigger, bigger platform.
A (1:34)
That's a big, big platform. I'm going to say this, that before your work in technology were on the full time faculty at the University of Hong Kong Medical School and an ethics researcher at the Harvard Law School. Cara, I'm kind of starstruck.
B (1:48)
Are you? Oh, yeah.
C (1:50)
And you know, it's, it's, it's actually pretty cool when you think about like health and then law. Like, those are two really big areas where the ethics are pretty critical to the functioning of those disciplines.
B (2:01)
Obviously, I think for, for, for your audience who may think like, well, how does, why does she do AI ethics now after, you know, being in medical school and being in law, I think exactly that intersection. I am, I'm an ethicist, I'm a philosopher by training. So I am interested in questions that are high stakes and asks the question, what is the right thing to do? And this critical core question is there whenever you engage with ethics and once you start talking about AI, it becomes yet another critical question. And the same training that allows me to do ethics in public health allows me to do ethics and AI. Of course, with the additional training around the domain,
