Interview: Responsible AI with Anna Bethke

How can we more fully consider building AI for social good?

Catherine Yeo
Fair Bytes
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6 min readJul 15, 2022

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For the 3rd episode of our interview series with AI experts, we had a great conversation with Anna Bethke!

Anna Bethke is a Principal Data Scientist focused on fair, accountable, transparent, & explainable (FATE) AI in Salesforce’s Ethical AI Practice Team, collaborating with product and research teams to create AI responsibly and empower our customers to use it responsibly. They research and implement innovative techniques for assessing and mitigating bias and harm in AI. Anna received their MS and BS in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concentrating on Human Factors Engineering. Anna was formerly the Head of AI for Social Good at Intel and previously worked at Facebook, MIT Lincoln Labs, Argonne National Labs, and Lab41.

Today, we dive into:

  1. Human factor engineering
  2. AI for social good in the industry setting
  3. Life as a gradient ascent

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Catherine Yeo
Catherine Yeo

Written by Catherine Yeo

Harvard | Book Author | AI/ML writing in @fairbytes @towardsdatascience

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