Sarah Bird
Responsible AI Lead, Azure AI, Microsoft
About
Sarah leads Responsible AI for foundational AI technologies at Microsoft. Sarah works to accelerate the adoption and positive impact of AI by bringing together the latest innovations in research, product, and policy to enable the use of new AI technologies such as generative AI models.
As an expert in responsible AI implementation, she contributes to the development and adoption of responsible AI principles, best practices, and technologies company-wide. Sarah led the cross-company team of experts to develop the new Bing responsibly and led the Responsible AI development for Github Copilot. Sarah led the product development of responsible AI tools including Fairlearn, SmartNoise and InterpretML. She is an active member of the Microsoft AETHER committee and contributed to the creation of the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard. Sarah was one of the founding researchers in the Microsoft FATE research group.
She has a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley advised by Dave Patterson, Krste Asanovic, and Burton Smith.
Sessions & Events
AI Under the Hood
NYC 2023
An AI-101 with Microsoft's leading evangelist Sarah Bird. In this session, we'll learn more on the fundamentals of how artificial intelligence works and how the creative community can leverage it to shape their work. This fireside conversation will be led by Piers Fawkes.
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