The NGO Women in AI is helping more women to engage with artificial intelligence, design their own programs and analyze data. The goal is for them become less dependent on their male counterparts.
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00:00I am enrolling in an engineering program when I was in Japan, and you know that Japan is
00:13a very good country with technology compared to our home country.
00:18So that's the reason I started to go into tech very deep.
00:23And after that, I think in my final year of PhD, I started to delve into AI.
00:29AI will conquer us in the future.
00:34So if you don't want to be conquered by AI, so we should develop the AI, then it will
00:39be developed into our OEB.
00:44I'm Dr Fairoza Amirah Binte Hamzah.
00:46I'm 32 years old, and I'm a Women in AI Malaysia Ambassador.
00:53Women in AI is a non-profit organization that is currently based in France.
00:59And then we have a lot of branches, chapters around the world.
01:09The landscape of AI currently reads a lot into the education.
01:14For example, if people are doing homeworks, assignments, they didn't think by themselves.
01:21They would tend to ask the Google, ask the BART, ask the chat to PT.
01:29So this kind of digital addiction is quite dangerous because people don't like to think
01:33anymore.
01:40Even the kids, they will just part with their smartphones if you give it to them.
01:49Women in AI usually train a lot of people to become AI engineers, data scientists, technopreneurs,
01:55entrepreneurs, product managers.
01:58So not really to get rid of digital addiction.
02:03Women in AI is trying to harness the digital addiction into a positive way so that those
02:09who are really addicted to AI technology, they actually want to build it instead of
02:14playing with it.
02:16Why don't we build it together?
02:29I started to find jobs in Japan when I was in my final year of PhD.
02:36I would say among 70 companies that I applied, I only managed to get three offers.
02:42The most main reason is because I'm a female and I'm wearing this hijab.
02:51When you are asking any questions to the AI, they actually can answer it in a fair way.
02:57It doesn't have any bias in the AI and it really didn't discriminate you like how humans
03:03can discriminate you.
03:14I want to contribute to build an inclusive AI and to promote the diversity, equity and
03:21inclusion with artificial intelligence and to make sure that everyone can use AI happens,
03:28which means that I need to be on the very top stage of the AI, I guess.
03:34So that's the reason actually when I started building my own startup, I think like two
03:38years ago, we started to build an inclusive AI.
03:46And currently I'm joining a Japanese company that is actually building an inclusive AI
03:51where it really goes into quality assurance and also AI fairness.
04:08It is very important for women to work in AI because we need to make sure that we have
04:14a variety of opinions in the field of like when we are building the artificial intelligence
04:20models and when we are drafting the policy for AI, when we are talking about AI.
04:29Growing up, I didn't really see a lot of females that is actually in technology field.
04:42Because we don't have anyone that would mentor us.
04:47But yeah, I think like we are slowly going through this.
04:55And I think like, if we have more females, more like very good professional AI or tech
05:01females that can mentor the young women, then I think we can have a very good women in the
05:06field in the future.