Can artificial intelligence be the catalyst for gender equality? To discover the answer to this question, I had a conversation with Maryam Miradi.
Join us on episode 46 as our conversation covers many topics, including:
🤖 How Artificial Intelligence will impact our lives
🫱🏼🫲🏾 The crucial role of explainability when it comes to trust in AI
🙋🏻♀️ Why AI offers a unique opportunity to break gender barriers.
Plus, she’ll explain how she uses her 20+ years of experience in AI to help data scientists build AI solutions that matter.
When you’re ready to learn if Artificial Intelligence can act as a catalyst for gender equality, tune in to the episode by clicking the play button below.
Episode 46: Is Artificial Intelligence the Catalyst for Gender Equality? | Maryam Miradi on Women Disrupting Tech – Women Disrupting Tech
About Maryam Miradi
Maryam Miradi holds a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Delft University. She has over 20 years of experience building artificial intelligence solutions and has worked for many Dutch organizations, including banks, the government, and energy companies.
Her work on predicting the maintenance of Dutch Highways and secondary roads won her international recognition and awards.
To discover more about Maryam’s important work, you can connect with her on LinkedIn.
About AI Solutions Mastery
Maryam is the VP & Chief AI Scientist of Profound Analytics, her own company.
She has carefully bundled her 20 years of knowledge and experience with building artificial intelligence solutions into her new AI training, AI Solutions Mastery.
When you’re ready to learn more, visit www.maryammiradi.com
The Magic You Can Expect in this Episode 🪄
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds a lot of promise for modern society. For instance, with AI, we can improve healthcare by detecting cancers sooner and more precisely than our doctors. We can also allow these doctors to have conversations with their patients without worrying about administrative tasks.
However, for AI to succeed, it is crucial that it is an inclusive technology. And, according to Maryam, the explainability of the data, the underlying models, and the outcomes are critical to its success.
As we explore whether artificial intelligence can be a catalyst for gender equality, Maryam and I have a broad-ranging conversation on topics such as
- The power of diversity when building AI solutions 🌈
- The role of parents as the ultimate influencers that can encourage girls to choose a career in AI 👨👩👧👧
- Her mission of preventing that AI code ends up as digital garbage floating around in a cloud 🌫️
Plus, you’ll discover why ChatGPT is not the same as Artificial Intelligence😳.
When you’re ready to explore the world of artificial intelligence, click the button below to listen to the episode.
What makes this episode magical🌟?
I’m letting you in on a little secret: Part of the magic that I want to bring to my podcast is that guests can safely share their knowledge and experiences in a way that is easy to understand for you as a listener.
Reducing complex problems to simple words is a great way to help the women on the podcast be the experts that they are.
For complex topics like AI, this means that I have to balance my curiosity with a little bit of scripting. Especially if I’m interviewing a Ph.D. powerhouse in artificial intelligence.
However, in our 90+ minute pre-recording conversation, Maryam already had so much wisdom to share and an educated point of view about so many things related to women in tech that I knew that our conversation would be amazing, with or without a script.
Therefore, I let my curiosity take over.
As a result, this episode contains an hour of AI wisdom woven with personal stories from Maryam’s remarkable journey. Are you ready to listen?
What’s coming up?
Next week, it is time for part two of the AI doubleheader. In episode 47, I’ll interview Liana Hakobyan, a female AI marketer. We’ll explore how we can use AI in marketing beyond the obvious ChatGPT and MidJourney examples.
On International Women’s Day, Interviewed Arosha Brouwer to learn about Quan’s journey after she was my guest on episode 3. The episode will air on 29 March, and you do not want to miss it.
So stay tuned for some great episodes!
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Feedback? Let me know!
When you’ve finished listening to this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I’d love to hear your thoughts about this episode.
Particular feedback I’m looking forward to this week is if you’d like me to explore the topic of Women in AI a bit more or if you want me to return the focus to female founders?
So please do not hesitate to contact me via LinkedIn or email if you have any positive or negative feedback or if you would like to suggest a guest that I absolutely must have on the podcast.
Do You Want to Be a Male Ally
How do you get started with diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech when you’re a man?
Let me give you a few suggestions, courtesy of ChatGPT:
📚 Educate yourself about the topic.
👂🏻 Listen to underrepresented people and amplify their voices.
💪🏼 Support inclusive practices like fair compensation.
🫱🏼🫲🏾 Collaborate with DEI organizations and advocate for DEI within your company.
By listening, you’re already ticking two of these boxes. And maybe you’re ready to do more.
My own journey to being a male ally
About 18 months ago, I was in your shoes. So, I started a podcast to interview women working in tech. I wanted to learn why there are so few of them. This podcast is called Women Disrupting Tech.
Since I started, I’ve interviewed 44 women about topics ranging from founding a startup to managing intellectual property. My goal is to provide them with a platform so they can inspire other women to consider an education or a job in tech.
But my goal for 2024 is to have more men join the conversation as guests and members of the Women Disrupting Tech Community.
Why you want to join?
As a member, you’ll receive a free email every Friday. By reading it, you’ll learn something new about diversity in tech. Like how we can prevent the gender pay gap. Or how to start with DEI in a startup. The women I interview inspire you with their stories, help you understand their points of view, and advocate for them. Of course, I include links to the most recent podcast episode and the show notes for further reading and education.
So, it is an excellent way to start educating yourself. But reading the newsletter and listening to the podcast also ticks other boxes on the list. By sharing the articles, you can amplify their voices to other people in your network. With the wisdom these women share, you can support inclusive practices in your company.
Ultimately, that’s good for business and gets you karma points. All of that for free.
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