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The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world

Sveta Smirnova
Sveta Smirnova
Principal Support Engineering Coordinator
Percona
Bennie Grant
Bennie Grant
COO
Percona
Zsolt Parragi
Zsolt Parragi
Software Engineer
Percona
Alastair Turner
Alastair Turner
Community Technologist
Percona
Federica Marrella
Federica Marrella
PhD Researcher in Design
University of Parma
Session Thursday, Sep 10 11:00am – 12:00pm Matterhorn 3

It often looks like everyone loves AI. Everyone also seems worried about AI. Some will even be wondering if those two consecutive short sentences show that this text was written by AI. It wasn’t.

With so much discussion around AI going on, it’s easy to just focus on the issues around code, content and open source, or on the ethically complex areas where AI is being used to mediate human interaction with systems or organisations. Join us for a discussion bridging that gap. Looking at where developers and reviewers are using AI well; what it does to reviewers when they use it badly; the concerns raised when end users interact with the AI, not just code generated by it; and the business case for adoption.

Speakers

Sveta Smirnova
Sveta Smirnova
Principal Support Engineering Coordinator
Percona

Sveta Smirnova is a world-renowned MySQL expert. She is the author of the books “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”, a MySQL support engineer with decades of experience, and …

Bennie Grant
Bennie Grant
COO
Percona

As COO at Percona, I lead a team dedicated to empowering businesses with open source database solutions. With over 9 years as an integral part of Percona’s leadership, I have an intimate understanding of our …

Zsolt Parragi
Zsolt Parragi
Software Engineer
Percona

Zsolt joined Percona as a software developer in 2017 and has been working on Percona’s database products ever since, initially focusing on MySQL and later switching to PostgreSQL. He likes to focus on things that make …

Alastair Turner
Alastair Turner
Community Technologist
Percona

Since 1995, Alastair has deployed, administered, programmed and supported all things database, from Access to Universe, settling on Postgres around 2002. After being hit by the Kubernetes wave around 2018, Alastair has …

Federica Marrella
Federica Marrella
PhD Researcher in Design
University of Parma

Federica Marrella is a PhD researcher in Design at the University of Parma, Italy, and a Visiting PhD Researcher at the Inclusive AI Lab, Utrecht University. With a background in industrial design and user experience …

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