Unless the unintended consequences of AI-powered HR technology are urgently addressed, hundreds of millions worldwide face lifetimes of economic and societal exclusion, believes Susan Scott-Parker, who together with IBM and Oxford Brookes University, has set up the Disability Ethical AI? Alliance.
Susan is the keynote speaker at Diversity Network’s Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Summit on 12 November. To access your ticket, see here: https://diversity-network.com/2024-disability-inclusion-and-accessibility-summit/
“Thankfully, those influencing responsible AI have begun to address race and gender bias, but the world’s 1.3 billion people with disabilities are still so excluded from this debate that no one has even noticed they aren’t there,” says Susan, the Founder of Business Disability International and Strategic Advisor to the ILO Global Business & Disability Network. Susan set up the first business disability network, BDF UK.
Following her keynote address, Susan will join three other expert speakers to discuss the unintended consequences of AI when it is used for recruitment – and in the wider workplace – with Rahul Zende, Principal Data Scientist, Navy Federal Credit Union; Julia Stoyanovich, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Responsible AI, New York University; and Gerrard Gosens OAM, an Australian Paralympian and entrepreneur.
Unapologetic in her demand to investigate what she believes is market failure, Susan has designed a series of hazard labels to alert the HR community to think carefully about AI software and its impact on disability equality in the workplace.
“Neither the AI creators nor their HR customers understand disability discrimination.
“We need to bring human reality into the worldview of those influencing the ethical and responsible AI debate – in the knowledge that the experience of disability is intrinsic to that reality,” says Susan.
