“Technology now seems to be intertwined very closely with politics. Growing up as a software developer I never expected this day would come, but here we are, it’s 2020 and we’re talking about how technology should be policing the president of the United States on Twitter”

This is a conversation with Swathi Young. Swathi is the CTO at Integrity Management Services Inc., a healthcare services company. She is the Washington DC Ambassador for Women in AI, an international non-profit organization whose goal is to increase diversity in the field of AI.

In this episode, Swathi talks about the challenges of building ethical AI frameworks for the US Government that support both regulation and innovation. I asked her if it’s possible to prevent technological developments moving overseas when local legislation gets too stringent and whether Chinese developments affect US thinking on AI regulation.