In 2023, Lenovo unveiled its imaginative and prescient of “Smarter AI for All,” centered on unleashing the facility of AI to drive clever transformation in each side of individuals’s lives and offering know-how, options, and companies that empower industries, enterprises, and people around the globe. Lenovo acknowledges that the belief of this imaginative and prescient hinges upon its steadfast adherence to ideas that assure the accountable, moral, and secure improvement, deployment, and utilization of AI.
Lenovo is happy to announce Doug Fisher’s expanded position as Lenovo’s Chief Safety and AI Officer, reporting to Lenovo’s CEO. In his newly expanded position, Fisher will lead Lenovo’s Synthetic Intelligence (“AI”) governance by championing Lenovo’s AI Coverage and dealing alongside Lenovo’s Accountable AI Committee. Lenovo chartered the Accountable AI Committee in 2022 with various leaders from throughout Lenovo’s enterprise. The Accountable AI Committee is charged with evaluating Lenovo’s AI options towards the important thing pillars of variety and inclusion, environmental and social impression, accountability and reliability, transparency, explainability, privateness, and safety.
“Safety and privateness are two of our prime priorities as we lead innovation and transformation within the age of AI,” Fisher not too long ago shared. “Lenovo’s AI Coverage ensures that our clients and companions and the broader neighborhood can belief the AI options we offer.”
At its core, the coverage goals to help crucial pillars of Accountable AI at Lenovo:
- Lenovo is not going to use AI in ways in which hurt folks or put them or their rights in danger;
- Lenovo will be sure that our AI is truthful, clear, explainable, and environment friendly
- Lenovo will defend folks’s privateness in any respect phases of the AI Lifecyle;
Lenovo’s AI will probably be developed and used with strong safety protections. Lenovo has already aligned itself to proactively show accountability and accountability within the AI house, committing to the Canadian Authorities’s Voluntary Dedication to Accountable, Moral Generative AI, UNESCO’s Dedication to and Advice on the Ethics of Synthetic Intelligence, and the Cercle InterElles Dedication to Accountable and Gender-Equitable Synthetic Intelligence.
To help Lenovo’s dedication to Smarter AI for All, the corporate is connecting communities around the globe and NGOs to be taught extra in regards to the shortly evolving AI house. Whereas additionally working with third events to develop AI options for under-represented communities together with real-time interpretation of Libras, the Brazilian signal language, and dealing with the Scott-Morgan Basis to develop an avatar that creates new communication prospects for folks with extreme disabilities.
Lenovo is targeted on guaranteeing the way forward for AI meets its full potential as a profit to humanity. Lenovo has additionally harnessed the facility of AI for sustainability, with real-time monitoring of emissions throughout its worth chain and an AI-powered advisor to help clients’ sustainability selections throughout the IT lifecycle.
Study extra about Lenovo’s strategy to Accountable AI and extra of its governance initiatives within the FY2023-24 Environmental, Social and Governance Report.
