Dr Kobi Leins was named in the 2024 International list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™. She was also awarded for Inspired Minds Top 65 Most Influential Women (2023), and The Top 75 Innovators of 2023™ - 2024.
Kobi has had a career spanning treaty making with the United Nations, interdisciplinary research on AI in academia, and practical implementation of AI governance in commercial settings. Kobi's expertise uses her knowledge as an expert with Standards Australia for the International Standards Organisation work on AI standards. She also co-hosts the AI Australia podcast, where they report what’s going on in Artificial Intelligence in Australia today with a particular focus on practicing responsible AI, diversity and inclusion, and AI at scale. What should we be aware of? And how could this affect society in Australia?
She can make the most complex topics accessible, and is an expert in translation, and has a forward-looking perspective with a solid historical grounding. She provides strategic advice on selection, implementation and operation of technologies to drive business edge; creates systems for organisational and delegation of ownership for complex systems and data; and uses international benchmarking to analyse opportunities and risks in the face of rapidly changing legal and governance landscapes and data literacy and public sentiment.
Having taught post-grad courses, Kobi can engage students and board members alike - and everyone else in between - with a dry sense of humour and provocations that always leave her audience engaged and thinking.
Talking Points
AI Governance & Management
Many discussions about AI are not based in fact and are binary and polarised. I can talk to specific areas of application or generalist audiences, data scientists and non-executive board members – my experience in international law and arms control, academia and industry gives me a unique perspective on how new technologies are being used and can shape our world.AI Governance & Management
Audiences walk away with the level of knowledge that they need to approach AI and other technologies with a critical lens and curiosity, as well as to be aware of what they don’t know. In a work context, this can mean rich savings in smarter decisions, minimisation of risk and being comfortable asking hard questions. More generally, it will enrich citizens to ask deeper questions about democracy and consumers better questions about their rights.
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Voices from the #GESDASummit – Kobi Leins
About cyber and the new way of doing war: “We are seeing people change how they engage with the world. They’re increasingly talking to themselves. It’s not just the risk of people being forced into positions of extremism online, but also people being forced into bubbles of ‘normality’ that they think represent the world” – Kobi Leins, Visiting Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Science and Security Studies, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, at the second Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit 2022.
