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9 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2018
Navrina Singh says that when AI took off around 2018 and 2019, many analysts believed governance would not be important.
“when artificial intelligence started to take off back in 2018, 2019, there was a thesis that, oh, governance is not gonna be important.”
2020
By 2020, Navrina Singh had worked more than two decades as a computer engineer at companies including Qualcomm and Microsoft.
“By then, Navrina Singh had already clocked over two decades as a computer engineer in big tech, at companies like Qualcomm and Microsoft.”
2020
Navrina Singh says Credo AI created and coined the term 'AI governance' when it was founded in 2020, when no market for it existed.
“there was no market in AI governance, you know, so it was we actually at Credo AI created and coined the term AI governance”
Undated
Navrina Singh says she sits on President Biden's National AI Advisory body, which gave her a chance to bring AI governance into government policy.
“I currently sit on President Biden's National AI Advisory Commission, and so really getting that opportunity to bring AI governance to policy and government ecosystem”
Undated
Navrina Singh says she has served for about two years on the National AI Advisory Committee, which is part of the US Department of Commerce.
“it's just been such an honor past two years to be on the National AI Advisory Committee that is part of, you know, Department of Commerce.”
Undated
Navrina Singh says there is no common definition of fairness for facial recognition systems, and that about twenty-one definitions exist.
“There is no common definition. I mean, there are twenty one definitions.”
Undated
Navrina Singh describes watermarking as embedding information in AI-generated content so it can be identified as machine-made, and says it is only one piece of the solution to misuse.
“We've been discussing the concept of watermarking, where essentially you are embedding some information into AI generated content that you can decipher that this is AI generated and it's not human created.”
Undated
Navrina Singh argues that voluntary commitments from technology companies don't work and that big tech must be held accountable to guardrails.
“Because as you and I have seen, and and you've been in the space for a long time, is that voluntary commitments don't work.”
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Navrina Singh says she is testing 'adaptive policymaking' at the state and local level, in which policies are tried in a sandbox and revised before being finalized.
“But a concept of this adaptive policymaking is something that I've been socializing and testing out at state and local level to really understand when we let's put something out there within a sandbox, see how it gets implemented.”
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