Friday, March 21, 2025

Embracing Neurodiversity


In today’s innovation-driven world, diverse perspectives fuel creativity. Yet neuro-diverse talent remains underutilized in several parts across the globe. While neuro-diverse teams increase productivity and innovation, in many working cultures and non-progressive non-inclusive corporate human resource management mindset only a small fraction (maybe about a tenth) of the workforce "may" exhibit neuro-diverse traits, an even smaller portion secures inclusive opportunities due to stigma and rigid hiring processes. Quite surprisingly, yet very much admissible is the fact that only just over half (52%) of employers say there is a general awareness across the workforce about what neurodiversity is and why it's important.

Neurodiversity is in concept a viewpoint that certain people have learning and thinking differences rather than inferiorities. The concept has been around for many years, but in a nutshell, it means that brain differences are just that, differences. Embracing neurodiversity means valuing and supporting people with different ways of learning and behaving.



Thursday, February 13, 2025

Responsibility in AI

The democratization and consumerization of AI are revolutionizing industries by enhancing efficiency, customer experience, and decision-making. However, as AI adoption grows, enterprises must prioritize responsible implementation, ensuring ethical, secure, and transparent AI systems through governance, legal compliance, and technical safeguards. The principles of responsible AI are based upon neutrality,  transparency, privacy and security, comprehensiveness, accountability, beneficence, and robustness.

Responsible AI ensures that the AI systems are trustworthy, ethical, and aligned with the societal values. AI governance is the backbone of responsible AI, which is strategically speaking, a focused approach with long-term ethical AI alignment, encompassing frameworks, policies, and processes to guide the design, deployment, and monitoring of AI systems.

Responsible AI requires a horizontal collaboration across the board among data scientists, legal experts, and business leaders. This is crucial to foster interdisciplinary contributions, and engaging effectively with all stakeholders.