Nadella 'decodes future', calls for diverse teams to protect AI from bias

The Microsoft CEO said the developers have to think about privacy as a human right and there is a need to have gender and ethnic diversity in the teams that are building these technologies.

That artificial intelligence (AI) applications can be sometimes be biased is no longer unusual, and when that happens, Microsoft — one of the biggest proponents of AI — has a lot to worry about. But Satya Nadella, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Redmond-headquartered tech giant, also has a simple solution to do away with such biases.

Currently on a three-day visit to India, the Hyderabad-born Nadella says it’s not the AI engine, but the teams that build it as well as the algorithms to make it intelligent have to be diverse and inclusive, so that the solutions they