AI's moral compass with the responsible AI expert behind CredoAI

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Natasha interviewed a Jack of all trades in the AI world with a focus on governance: Navrina Singh. Navrina is the founder and CEO of CredoAI, a governance platform helping organizations monitor, measure and manage AI-introduced risks. We're talking about: Navrina's wedge into the world of AI, and when governance went from a lonely conversation to a global focus. Her experience with Microsoft, observing how the EU AI Act's legislation is coming together, and her work as a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) - which advises President Biden and the National AI Initiative Office Regulation, responsible AI and getting over "AI hypocrisy" Casting fear aside as a motivator for change Navrina's thoughts on recent news in AI, including GPT-4's launch and Microsoft's ethical AI team layoffs. As always, Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann will be back for our weekly news roundup on Friday, but you can follow us on Twitter @EquityPod for live updates and more. For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7:00 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotifyand all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, one that details how our stories come together and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha Masquerainis and this is our Wednesday show
0:21.2	where we niche down to a single person, think about their work, and
0:24.4	unpack the rest. Today we're talking to Naurina Singh, the founder and CEO of Creto AI, which is a governance
0:30.4	platform helping organizations monitor, monitor measure and manage AI introduced
0:34.5	risks.
0:35.5	Have you ever heard of it?
0:36.5	I don't know if we've talked about it at all on the pot over the past few months.
0:40.0	No jokes aside Nervina is someone I've been super excited to talk about because she's not a tourist in this space.
0:45.6	She has at everything from advised President Biden on responsible AI to work on writing the EU AI Act.
0:51.8	Nervina, welcome to the show.
0:53.6	Thank you so much for having me Natasha and very excited for the conversation today.
0:57.3	Oh, me too.
0:58.3	Well, first things first.
0:59.3	Are you just taking a victory lab now that everyone cares about AI all over again? Like what does this
1:04.3	moment feel like to you as someone who's just been on the space for I mean how many
1:08.0	years now? Yeah it's been over 20 years in making. Wow. So I loved the enthusiasm around artificial intelligence.
1:15.4	And I really like the excitement around putting AI to good use
1:19.6	and in production scenarios.
1:21.3	So it feels like a little bit of like crossing the finish
1:23.8	line but this new finish line is actually the start line to the next I would say
1:28.0	age of AI. Oh that's so well said I think when I first started reporting about
1:32.0	tech it was around four or five years ago and I remember
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