New Zealand Statistical Association 2024 Conference

Joe Robins – Premium Sponsor's Presentation, SAS New Zealand

The best minds of my generation are teaching machines to be convincingly wrong – how do we make this right?

Massive investment into artificial Intelligence (AI) technology globally is increasing demand for already scarce data science and statistics practitioner skill sets. This growth of AI also has the potential to boost productivity but brings with it many risks and pitfalls. How do we ensure the workforce is up-skilling to meet demand whilst also balancing the risk vs reward of creeping AI deployments?

In this talk I will share SAS' approach to addressing this, including matching skill sets to demand, tool set design and good practice guidelines.