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.
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