E66 - Chris Dolman - Practicalities and Opportunities of Ethical AI
Chris Dolman is the EM, Data and Algorithmic Ethics at Insurance Australia Group (IAG). IAG (ASX:IAG) is the largest general insurance company in Australia and New Zealand.
Chris joined IAG as Manager, Insurance Liabilities in 2010. Since then, Chris has held various senior leadership positions across the company, including analytics director and GM analytics. Over the years, his responsibilities have included oversight of the insurance liabilities, pricing, regulatory engagement, actuarial, finance, reinsurance, risk and capital.
Presently, he is helping IAG to ensure that data-driven decisioning algorithms operate under clearly defined standards.
He thrives on exploring the critical ethical and philosophical questions about the use of AI technologies. He is constantly engaged in volunteer activities with Actuaries Institute Australia and professional events to promote the responsible use of data and AI. He is also heavily engaged in various research initiatives with organisations and academia on related aspects of ethical AI.
Chris was a pivotal force in setting up and developing the data science capabilities at IAG. He is also a pioneer of paving the way for the company in greater use of algorithmic decision making. He led IAG's analytics function in its early inception and instigated projects which ultimately realised multi-million dollar benefits across organisational verticals.
Chris won the 2021 All-Actuaries Summit Melville Prize for his paper discussing IAG’s Australian AI Ethics Framework project that he led. He also won the Melville Actuaries Summit Prize 2020 and Actuaries Institute "Spirit of Volunteering Award" 2020.
In this exclusive episode, Chris shares with us:
If you are a senior business leader, who has been wanting to implement AI in your organisation, but you are equally concerned about the bias and ethical issues surrounding it, this is the episode you should not miss.
BusinessAnalytics, AIEthics, DataAnalytics, InsuranceAnalytics, DataScience
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