January's Advisory Group, LLC

African stakeholders have been working to implement #ResponsibleAI in economic policymaking. Africa's White Paper and Continental Strategy outline the Strategic Roadmap to Africa’s AI Transformation in six pillars: 1. Human capital development for AI, emphasizing education and skills development. 2. Infrastructure and data foundations, highlighting the importance of robust physical and digital networks. 3. Creating enabling environments for AI development and deployment. 4. Fostering an AI-driven economic transformation. 5. Building sustainable partnerships across sectors and institutions. 6. Implementing rigorous monitoring & evaluation mechanisms. See the AUDA-NEPAD AI Dialogue here 👉🏿 👉🏻 👉🏽 : https://lnkd.in/gzsRUjbq

Virginia joins seven other states including Alabama, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and Washington, "in launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force to support policymakers and government agencies in implementing the technology," Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced. "The task force members represent state educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and private corporations, each of whom will advise policymakers and state agencies to support the safe, responsible, and cost-effective adoption of AI." See who's on the Virginia's Task Force here 👉🏾👉🏼👉🏿 : https://lnkd.in/gRPih7GZ

Pieces Technologies' generative AI tool provides "summaries of patients' conditions and treatments for hospital staff." An investigation by Mr. Paxton's office revealed that Pieces made misleading claims about the accuracy of its healthcare AI products, potentially endangering the public interest." "According to the news release, Pieces created various metrics to promote its AI tools as "highly accurate," advertising an error rate or "severe hallucination rate" of "<1 per 100,000" in its marketing efforts. Mr. Paxton's investigation concluded that these metrics were likely inaccurate and may have misled hospitals regarding the true accuracy and safety of the company's products." (See the article 👉🏿 👉🏻 👉🏽 : https://lnkd.in/eDAtyAZt)

Michigan Tech startup founders of Syncurrent, Dhruv Patel and Matthew Jaquez, are using #AI "in the hopes of better-serving Tribal Nations by connecting them to a tailored set of #federal #technology #grants they’re eligible for, with a focus on respecting each Tribe's unique data protection needs." “We hired a CTO to build an AI to scrape every data source off the Internet on federal funding and aggregate it,” said Patel. “We released it to all the Tribal partners we were working with, and immediately Tribes are going back to us, and they're like, ‘This is already solving 90% of our problems right off the bat.’” #TechforGood #AiforAll #ResponsibleAI #InclusiveDesign #EndUser

"For years, #local #governments have been exploring how AI can help fill staff shortages, especially in [#911] call centers...the county was looking to transition from what he described as “the best technology the 1960s had to offer” to a cloud-based system that leverages #AI technology to support next-generation 911 (NG911). At Jeffcom 911,...the dispatch communications center receives an average of 2,000 calls per day. About 20- 25% of those are emergencies, while the others are non-emergency calls that still require a public safety response." -Michael Brewer Deputy Director, Jeffcom 911

#AI #policy is evolving state-to-state; regulatory frameworks, #AI #governance, #legislative #mandates, and dedicated offices have been created to implement and guide AI deployment. "In #Connecticut, the executive branches’ AI inventory is public record, and includes details like which AI tools each agency uses, what it decides, what vendors are involved, and if it’s been assessed. In #Massachusetts, $25 million has been earmarked for IT capital AI projects within the executive branch. In #Pennsylvania, legislators passed an act to study how AI might be used to improve how the #911 and #988 systems can assist people experiencing a #mentalhealth crisis." To follow who's doing what state to state, check out the Interactive Tracker on AI State Policy changes 👉🏼 👉🏿 👉🏾 : https://lnkd.in/gy4Ds4w2

"Facilitating the development of a federated, privacy-preserving national #AI outcomes registry. “That is a very important part of how we are starting to think about #operationalizing the principles of value assessment or #bias #mitigation or #drift,” Dr. Rhew said. 2024 HIMSS Conference unveiled "TRAIN" - Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), a "consortium of healthcare leaders whose aim is to operationalize responsible AI principles and guidelines, such as those that improve the quality, safety and trustworthiness of AI in healthcare settings." Reference: Becker's Healthcare White Paper, "Responsible innovation: How to elevate clinicians + improve health equity with the ethical application of AI", GovCIO HIMSS 24 Federal Takeaways #responsibleai #aiforall #CIO #HIMSS24 #techequity #responibledesign

"Proxy Discrimination" in algorithms cuts out your client- base by pulling from bias in the data, bias towards efficiency and not inclusivity in the algorithm, and little-to-no quality assurance checks in operations. With 80% of Credit Risk organizations deploying AI - the hit to BIPOC businesses and poor families will be hard. Unless #Devops / #Developers mitigate the risk and add social equity to their AI deployments, thousands will be denied access to credit. #inclusion #matters #responsibledesign #responsibleai #aiforall #devops #developers #AI #proxydiscrimination #algorithms #clientbase #biasinai #qualityassurance #QA #operations

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Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) Special Advisor on Minority Affairs to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and consultant on interracial affairs at the United Nations Charter Conference. She was the 15th of 16 children who were raised by a mother and father in slavery, and the 1st black woman to lead a federal agency. She was a racial equity #pioneer, #mentor, and #leader. (Read about her here from the National Women's History Museum: https://lnkd.in/dJ47AVJ) #leaders #who #inspire #Juneteenth #racialequity