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340: Critical Thinking over Code: Tess Posner, AI4ALL CEO, on Raising Responsible AI Leaders

2025/6/16
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Tess Posner: 作为AI for All的CEO，我深信AI的未来需要更多元的声音和视角。我们正在培养下一代AI领袖，他们不仅要具备技术能力，更要具备伦理责任感和社会责任感。我亲眼见证了AI如何改变人们的生活，也看到了它可能带来的风险。因此，我们必须尽早介入，确保AI的发展符合人类的共同利益。我鼓励年轻人积极参与AI领域，无论是否成为技术专家，都可以通过提问、批判性思考和创新来塑造AI的未来。我相信，只有当我们拥有一个多元化、包容性的AI社区，才能真正实现AI的潜力，让它为所有人服务。我希望通过AI for All的努力，能够激发更多年轻人对AI的热情，培养他们的创新精神和领导力，共同创造一个更美好的未来。

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This chapter emphasizes the growing importance of AI literacy for everyone, highlighting AI's impact on various fields and daily life. It also touches upon the limitations of AI and the need for human sensibilities in AI applications.
  • AI is becoming a significant force impacting all fields and aspects of life.
  • AI literacy is essential for both casual users and future developers.
  • The future of work involves humans working alongside AI agents, leveraging AI's capabilities while maintaining human understanding and sensibilities.

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Tess Posner is the CEO and founding leader of AI4ALL, a nonprofit that works to ensure the next generation of AI leaders is diverse and well-quipped to innovate. Since joining in 2017, she has focused on embedding ethics, responsibility, and real-world impact into AI education. Her work connects students from underrepresented backgrounds to hands-on projects and mentorships that prepare them to lead in tech. Beyond her role at AI4ALL, Tess is a musician whose 2023 EP Alchemy has over 600,000 streams on Spotify. She was named a 2020 Brilliant Woman in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree and holds degrees from St. John’s University and Columbia University.

In this conversation, we discuss:

  • Why AI literacy is becoming essential for everyone, from casual users to future developers
  • The role of project-based learning in helping students see the real-world impact of AI
  • What it takes to expand AI access for underrepresented communities
  • How AI can either reinforce bias or drive real change, depending on who’s leading its development
  • Why schools should stop penalizing AI use and instead teach students to use it with curiosity and responsibility
  • Tess’s views on balancing optimism and caution in the development of AI tools

Resources:

  • Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter)
  • Connect with Tess on LinkedIn) or learn more about AI4ALL)
  • AI fun fact article)
  • On How To Build and Activate a Powerful Network)
  • Past episodes mentioned in this conversation:
  • [With Tess in 2020] - About what leaders do in a crisis)
  • [With Tess in 2019] - About how to mitigate AI bias and hiring best practices )
  • [With Chris Caren, Turnitin CEO] - On Using AI to Prevent Students from Cheating)
  • [With Marcus "Bellringer" Bell] - On Creating North America’s First AI Artist)