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Toju Duke on Why Responsible AI Is a Business Strategy, Not a Checkbox

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AI is being rolled out at scale across industries - but the safeguards haven't kept up. Bias in AI has improved less than 5% despite years of awareness, agentic AI is amplifying risks faster than companies can manage them, and most organizations still treat responsible AI as a compliance checkbox rather than a strategic advantage. 

In this episode of AI Made Simple: The Transformation Series, I'm joined by Toju Duke - AI advisor, author, and former Google Responsible AI lead - who spent a decade at Google before founding Diverse AI, an organization building a 5-million-image dataset to represent communities invisible to current AI systems. 

We discuss: 

  • Why AI bias hasn't meaningfully improved and what's blocking progress 
  • The security and accountability risks of deploying AI agents without safeguards 
  • How underrepresented data creates real business risk, from recruitment failures to reputational damage 
  • Why responsible AI should be part of your AI strategy, not a separate initiative 

Connect with Toju Duke:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tojuduke/
Website: https://www.tojuduke.com/
Her Books: Responsible AI
Building Responsible Algorithms 

Connect with Valeriya:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriya-pilkevich
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aimadesimpletalks
Podcast: https://aimadesimple.buzzsprout.com/

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