Kalika Bali On The Biases That Exist In Research

Clips from our Global Diversity Awareness Panel (Feb. 7, 2024). Kalika Bali explains how research can be unintentionally biased when developing technology for everyone to use.
Kalika Bali is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Labs India. Her work in speech and language technologies focuses on the use of language models for building technology that not only offers more natural human-computer interactions but includes a diversity of languages and user demographics. She has been working on technology for low-resource languages and other marginalized communities as a part of her work over two decades in Speech and Natural Language Processing and believes that local language technology especially with speech interfaces, can help millions of people enter a world that is till now almost inaccessible to them. Her recent work lies at the intersection of multilingual AI and gender. In recognition of her contributions, Kalika Bali was named in the inaugural TIME100 AI list, which honors the 100 most influential people in
AI.