Toju Duke Speaker Biography
Founder & CEO of Bedrock AI, Programme Manager for Responsible AI at Google, Founder of Diverse AI & Author of Building Responsible AI Algorithms
Toju Duke is a highly respected figure in artificial intelligence, known for her pioneering work in responsible and ethical AI. With an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Bircham International University, Toju has a deep academic foundation that she leverages in her influential roles across the AI landscape. As the Founder and CEO of Bedrock AI, she is at the forefront of efforts to ensure fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI development, constantly driving innovation in this critical area.
Program Manager for Responsible AI at Google
Toju also serves as Program Manager for Responsible AI at Google, where she has made significant strides in designing and implementing frameworks to eliminate bias in AI systems. This role complements her longstanding dedication to tackling the challenges of fairness and equity in data sets, establishing her as a foremost expert in the elimination of bias from machine learning models. Her work at Google is focused on making AI more inclusive, robust, and ethical.
Diverse AI
In addition to her professional roles, Toju is the founder of Diverse AI, an organisation dedicated to promoting greater representation of minorities within the AI industry. Through Diverse AI, she has cultivated a space for underrepresented voices, working tirelessly to ensure that the future of AI reflects a diversity of perspectives. This initiative is central to her commitment to fostering inclusivity, which she believes is essential to the ethical advancement of AI.
Ethical AI
As an Ethical AI Network Member of The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning and an Ambassador for Women in AI, Toju actively contributes to thought leadership in ethical AI. She is a sought-after speaker, delivering keynote addresses at events like the London AI Summit and the Surrey AI Summit in 2023, where her insights into responsible AI practices have been widely acclaimed. When hired as a keynote speaker, Toju consistently achieves an average client rating of 9.5, reflecting her exceptional delivery and deep expertise.
Book
Toju is also the author of Building Responsible AI Algorithms, a seminal work that provides practitioners with a framework for developing AI solutions that prioritise fairness, security, and transparency. Her work and advocacy continue to shape the AI industry, making her a leading voice in the quest for a fairer, more inclusive technological future.
Toju Duke Speaking Topics
Developing Responsibly in an AI Driven World
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led to many state-of-the-art, groundbreaking discoveries across the world and has contributed greatly towards the good of society. For example, we’ve seen breakthroughs in Healthcare, which has led to drug development, drug discovery and more accurate medical diagnosis. There’s also been an increase in AI adoption across businesses and users in the past few years, with the likes of ChatGPT now having a user base of 100+ million users within two months. ChatGPT is now considered the fastest growing app of all time. We live in a world with AI at our fingertips, and along its fascinating uses and outcomes comes challenges that are threatening to the safety, privacy, security and equal treatment of people in society.
The Responsible AI Framework
With the steady and rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications, including several statements threatening the existence of humanity, it’s quite crucial to understand the amazing benefits AI provides to society which includes solving global problems. In addition, it’s important to understand the limitations, risks and challenges these technologies have on different members of society. In order to tackle and address the recognized harms in AI applications, a responsible AI framework could be implemented across fairness, transparency and explainability, data ethics, AI principles, privacy, robustness, humans-in-the-loop, ethical considerations and so on. We’re living in an industrial revolution with AI at the forefront and understanding the Responsible aspects and practices of this incredible technology is key to gaining trust, success and growth across organizations, economies and countries.
Embracing AI Technologies in Marketing
As we’re currently experiencing an Industrial revolution which I categorize as the 4th industrial revolution, this time with AI and Generative AI in the forefront of emerging technologies particularly in the language domain, it’s important for marketers to learn about the benefits of AI and how to leverage the technology for further productivity and efficiency.
Mitigating AI’s Hype, Risks and Limitations with Responsible AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most rapidly rising technologies of all time, with users ranging from businesses, consumers, governments and the general public. AI’s ability to solve global problems including longstanding healthcare issues is outstanding. Nonetheless it’s also experiencing a gold rush with increasing hype on a daily basis. While year over year AI adoption has seen a massive growth – as with any new and nascent technology, it has limitations and risks that all AI adopters need to be aware of. Implementing a Responsible AI framework helps to mitigate and address these risks.
Toju Duke Books
Building Responsible AI Algorithms: A Framework for Transparency, Fairness, Safety, Privacy, and Robustness
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Toju Duke Speaker Testimonials
It was great to meet Toju and have her deliver a keynote at our meeting. It was a nice end to the first day of the meeting. We got positive feedback after her session and there were a lot of (even challenging) questions from the audience that she tackled well. I understood there was a lot of interest in follow-up discussions during the networking reception as well as before she had to leave. A member had also expressed interest in her speaking in the future at an event they are involved in. Overall, we can say she was a valuable addition to the agenda…
- Mobey Forum |
Had a brilliant time attending the second annual AltitudeX summit in Manchester yesterday! Some really inspiring and insightful talks covering all aspects of Data Science, ML and AI. A personal fave of mine had to be hearing more on Ethics in AI and Responsible AI Frameworks from Toju Duke.
- Olivia Meadows |
I just want to say a big thank you to Scottish AI Alliance for an informative and inspiring couple of days at the #scotaisummit 2023. Toju Duke’s keynote on building responsibility in an AI-driven world was one of the highlights of the event. She spoke passionately about the Fourth Industrial Revolution that we are currently observing with the rise of AI, and how we must manage this rise to ensure corporate accountability.
- John Rodigan |
I had a fantastic time at BrightonSEO last week. Toju Duke from Google summed things up perfectly for me in her keynote on Friday afternoon - "AI is here to stay and it's important we master the art of leveraging its benefits.
- Frazer Lloyd-Davies |
