Jenny Rae: The Data Free-for-All

In this episode of Force Multiplier, Danny is joined by Jenny Rae, CIO of Imperial College London.

Jenny shares her career path from a business degree at Oxford Brookes, to roles at Microsoft and BT, leading to her joining Imperial as Director of Digital Products. The conversation explores where the topic of sustainability has gone when talking about AI, and touches on student trust, concerns about profiling, and a lack of a “golden” GenAI use case.

If you like Force Multiplier, make sure to check out Danny’s debut podcast Sondership, which shares Inspiring Stories from People with Purpose at Sondership.com

Links:

Watch AI Confidential with Hannah Fry: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q76b/ai-confidential-with-hannah-fry

Read ‘Hello World’ by Hannah Fry:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-World-How-Human-Machine/dp/1784163066/

Title Chapters

00:14 What’s the change you’re trying to make

01:19 Becoming Imperial CIO

03:14 From Microsoft to BT

05:40 Meet Daisy AI

07:25 GenAI Vision at Imperial

10:51 Jobs Fears and AI Teachers

11:54 Governance and Ethics

14:38 Student Data Boundaries

17:28 Student Success Chatbot

18:47 Collaboration Beyond IT

19:20 Frictionless Tool Enablement

19:45 Change Management Over Use Cases

20:33 Everyday Productivity Wins

21:53 Humans Still Matter

22:59 User Centric vs AI First

24:27 Blade Runner Future Vision

26:35 Sustainability and AI Costs

29:55 Risks and Critical Thinking

30:54 Managing Humans and Agents

33:31 Robots and Autonomy Fears

35:45 Human Flaws and Trust

36:41 Augmenting Healthcare Decisions