Dr. Shah is currently a Principal Researcher on Salesforce’s Responsible AI Team. Previous to that she was a senior researcher at Google — focusing on AI Responsibility, Ethics and Inclusion in Google Search’s GenAI products. She cares deeply about — and has a two-decades long track-record of — advancing responsible tech design, with a strong commitment to understanding harms, abuse, bias, and unintended impacts of technology on global populations that are often the most left out of tech discourse.
She holds a PhD (2020) from Stanford in Tech Design during which time her work was featured in The Atlantic, The Nation, The Root and beyond. She has also been a speaker at the White House, UC Berkeley, Aspen Institute, the UN and more. Dr. Shah writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the opportunities and risks of AI. She is hopeful about the possibilities of AI to improve life for everyone, including the most vulnerable populations, and believes that the time is now to set the course of these powerful tools in a direction that serves everyone.
Summit 2025
Friday ·
1:30pm
What if the real challenge isn’t teaching AI right from wrong, but designing it to carry meaning? What if AI was built not just for efficiency, but for belonging — for creativity, trust, community, and personalization we actually want? Following their provocations, we all gather in topic circles to ask why this matters, how else we might approach it, what we might do about it, and how we can communicate it to the world.
Summit 2024
Sunday ·
1:00pm
Aekta Shah, Responsible AI Researcher at Salesforce, and John Pasmore, CEO and founder of Latimer.ai, set the scene with their visions of inclusive AI. Aekta begins by leading us through an inclusivity experience. John shares the journey of Latimer, a large language model built to more accurately reflect the experience, culture, and history of Black and Brown people. Both take us through their visions for AI, imagining deep inclusion, empathetic engagement, and total transparency as the path to truly inclusive AI.