On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Chris ↗
In their words
for me AI is about making computers do things that in humans require intelligence, but in that process we're learning what it is to be human. Artificial intelligence reflects our humanity.
we're also baking biases into our data. Where does your data come from? Are you baking in biases?
so every day when we're working on our startup we try and be ethical, and we never forget that what we're doing affects humanity.
Quick answers
Who is Chris McKillop?
Dr Chris McKillop is the CEO and co-founder of Turalt, a Toronto AI company whose tools score the tone, clarity and empathy of workplace email in real time.
What is Chris McKillop's background?
She took a degree in artificial intelligence in the early 1990s, and holds an MSc in human-centred computer systems and a PhD in educational technology. She originally comes from the UK.
What did Chris McKillop talk about at TechTO?
Ethics in AI startups, in a March 2019 talk called 'Email, empathy, ethics & AI'. Her argument: bias is always in the data and the algorithms, machines should not be making moral judgments, and small startups carry the same responsibility as Facebook or Microsoft.