Articles by Kriti Sharma
Accessing Agricultural Credit through Kisan Credit Cards
Patterns of Use, Transaction Costs, and Institutional Barriers in Eastern India Kisan Credit Card adoption, transaction costs, and institutional barriers are examined across five eastern Indian states using a two-round panel survey of 3,375 farm households in 2018 and 2023. KCC adoption increased modestly from 15.2% to 18.2%, while transaction costs declined.
Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI
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Insights from AI smart companion could advance efforts against domestic abuse
Kriti Sharma, VP of AI at Sage. When we launched rAINbow, an artificial intelligence-powered smart companion that aims to democratise support for victims of domestic violence, in November last year, we did not expect that it would facilitate over 150,000 conversations with South Africans in just over 3 months.
Invest in AI’s ethical future
Kriti Sharma Contributor Kriti Sharma is the vice president of AI and Ethics at Sage Group, based in the United Kingdom. Kriti was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2017 and the inaugural Recode 100 list of influencers in Technology, Business and Media. I spent a recent Saturday morning talking to a group of grade school kids about artificial intelligence. Many of them had never coded before, let alone heard of AI.
How to design a system for ethical innovation in tech
By Kriti Sharma3 minute Read Google was founded over two decades ago, but they released their first public set of ethical technology principles just last year. Facebook launched out of a Harvard dorm in 2004, but they formally launched an ethics program with a public investment last month. The era of tech companies moving fast and breaking things removed from public accountability is waning, if not entirely over.
AI Needs to Become Less Elitist
Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images A survey conducted last year by my company, Sage, in partnership with YouGov, found that one in four children aged 8-18 in the UK is interested in pursuing an AI career. What about the rest of them? Well, 20% of kids who were not interested in AI said they did not think they were smart enough. The most common answer (24%) was that they would prefer a more creative career. Both of these results point to an elitist attitude toward AI from government and in the media.
Mapping Violence in the Lives of Adivasi Women
A Study from Jharkhand The Adivasi women of Jharkhand negotiate with power structures within the family system and society, and are further entrapped in gender hegemonies that are part of larger shifts in the political economy.
How AI will bring out the best in accountants
Do you remember a time before online and mobile banking? A time when you’d walk into a bank and the manager would greet you by name, ask about your family and what you needed help with? That relationship and personal experience made us loyal to the bank because we felt like someone genuinely cared about us. Yet the commoditisation of technology has removed that human connection from business interactions – and, therefore, our loyalty to a brand.
Complex Orebodies 2018 Conference
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AusIMM's Global Mining Leaders Conference 2018
This conference brings together industry luminaries from Australia and around the world - providing a unique platform to discuss global issues impacting the mining industry.
Building a strong AI core for a robust digital economy
THE application of artificial intelligence has certainly come a long way, especially in the past year. Despite attempts to sensationalise AI, we have witnessed unprecedented gains in our understanding of the impact of AI-driven technologies in everyday life. Building on this progress, AI is poised to journey into the mainstream through 2018 and beyond.
AI Isn’t a Savior, But It Can Change the Lives of People in Underserved Communities
Kriti Sharma, vice president of AI and Ethics at Sage , shares what she wishes she knew as a teenager growing up in India and how tech can help underserved communities. You are 16. You just built your first computer from scratch after reading a few books about them. Technology beckons. But first, you need to endure a few more years of high school in India. I know you don’t like school. It’s tough when there’s one teacher for every 80 kids . But, I’m asking you to embrace your love for learning.
For AI to succeed, women need to get involved
ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) has been unequivocally recognised as a technology that can solve some of the world's most complex issues. In Singapore, the government's recent dedication of S$150 million to the Tech Skills Accelerator recognises the importance of developing tech talent in this emerging field. For all its touted benefits, however, the rise of AI can also have unintended consequences on workforce demographics and for women in business.
Five reasons why AI in Canada needs more women
Over the course of the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has become recognized as one of the keys to solving some of the world’s most complex issues, unlocking a level of growth and innovation that has never been seen before. Governments across the globe are now shifting gear, actively designing investment approaches, incentives and discussing regulatory frameworks to help their nations maintain a top spot in this emerging industry.
How to make AI work for everyone
Artificial intelligence (AI) had a breakthrough year in 2017. More companies rolled out, and invested in, AI-driven platforms, products and customer-oriented services. More publications covered AI as a mainstream topic. More people began to encounter AI — wittingly or unwittingly. Generally, folks became slightly more familiar with what AI actually is — and how AI's diverse applications can impact their own digital lives.
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