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AI Governance is emerging as the new market differentiator for SaaS B2B companies, and knowing where to start with a program implementation is not easy. Most Information Security or Compliance professionals often rely on certifications to learn and accredit new skills. Therefore, it is no surprise to see a growing ecosystem of certifications on AI Governance popping up.
A quick web search…
As the AI-hype props the Economy, trust in AI capabilities has become central for end users and customers of B2B SaaS companies alike. After all, AI brings many promises, but also threats.
Without trust, there is no business. How do you build trust about systems whose marketing rely on mysticism? Do we need to think of something new and follow the “visionaries” of the Tech industry…
A little over a year ago, I left my job as a Data Scientist at Okta, and started a new role as AI Security - Principal Security Engineer at Zendesk. That new role was vertiginously above the previous one (see the levels.fyi diagram below). I went from individual contributor at the bottom of the totem pole to reporting on company-wide initiatives to C-levels.
I had become the sole AI Security…
Nearly two years after the launch of ChatGPT, the hype and - unfortunately - the h y s t e r i a surrounding AI and LLMs has not ebbed.
The bold nature of some of those statements is aggravated by the exoneration of scientists and technologists from the burden of proof. The lack of reasoned, measured, and evidence-based discourse about genAI, especially from very eminent researchers, should…
I have talked about how to be the captain of your career, and how to leverage your network through mentoring and LinkedIn. But what is this all for? Why is it important to manage your career? Why should you seek career advancement? You might find what you do very interesting, very engaging, very fulfilling. But chances are, dear reader, that you have to work for a living. And if you are a women in…
I know what you are going to say. 😏 LinkedIn. Eww..🙄 LinkedIn is this weird place where influencers reach late-stage capitalism level of cringe.
And yet, LinkedIn is an indispensable tool in the arsenal of women in software engineering. Remember, you are the captain, and a good captain will use every tool at her disposal.
LinkedIn is how I found every job I have had since I…
Have you ever wondered why receiving feedback feels so dreadful? It’s probably because most people are terrible at giving constructive feedback. Instead, they give useless, lazy, or even hurtful “feedback”. I wasn’t surprised to read about the massive disproportion of bad feedback given to women compared to men. In my experience, the large and historical unbalance between…
In 2023, in an over-cooled conference room, I received the happy news that I was promoted to Staff Data Scientist. Next to me, a colleague turned a discomfited face. Later that day, he confessed that he was very disappointed he was not promoted as well. “Did you ask for it?” I asked. “No”, he answered, confused. In his previous job, “It just happened”.
In my…
This article is a blog version of my talk “An AI, a software engineer, and a security researcher walk into a bar…” presented publicly at the 2024 Pride Summit.
An AI, a software engineer, and a security researcher walk into a bar… It starts as a joke, and ends with concrete recommendations to build effective teams that can shape the future of AI…
In 2012, a viral TED talk by Amy Cuddy became the spark that started a blaze through psychological research, and pushed the field of Psychology into an existential crisis. As it turn out, many psychology research results were unreproducible. Reproducibility is a keystone of the scientific method, because it reinforces the validity of the discovery. “Science doesn’t care what you…
Or at least, we would like to. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in our daily life, and for better or for worse we are all guinea pigs 🐹. We are experiencing the kink of an immature regulatory and compliance framework. Sometimes it’s funny, and sometimes it’s not, not, and NOT. (See also my quick guide to the AIpocalypse 🤖)
The Uneven landscape of AI Safety &…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now ubiquitous in our daily life, and we have become - willingly or unwillingly - guinea pigs 🐹. In the future, the AIpocalypse may yet be an action-packed fight against the Terminator, but for now, it is something closer to a boring dystopia à la 1984.
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In this article, I introduce the notions of AI risk, AI harm, and AI threat,…
At its root, the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can benefit Humanity through its ability to automate decision-making in complex contexts, at scale. The quick rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT has brought to the forefront questions about positive and negative externalities. Beyond the glamour and glitters of ChatGPT and beyond the hype and marketing ploy of “AI…
Have you heard about this AI-powered crypto block-chain NFT start-up that uses LLMs to disrupt the pop-corn industry? Yeah, me too. 🤨
The goal of this article is to give you a better sense of what is what in AI, where things begin and end. Definitions often rely on arbitrarily choosing where things start and end. But in AI as in Nature, things may be fuzzy and overlap. Unless cited,…
The sudden democratization of Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) tools, especially those backed by Large Language Models (LLMs), has enflamed passions and questioned our fundamental understanding of intelligence, consciousness, and reasoning. For some, LLMs are the latest expression of age-old questions. Can machines think? Can machines become sentient? What is consciousness? From…