Sinead Bovell

Founder, WAYE · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sinead Bovell founded WAYE to prepare next-generation leaders and businesses for the workforce and ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence and advanced technology. A commentator for outlets like CNN and Vogue, she hosts the podcast I've Got Questions and has addressed the United Nations on technology ethics.

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Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Bovell: AI will depress wages in modeling and programming
“We're going to see this across the board with AI. It's going to put downward pressure on a lot of different wages from modeling to programming, but that's where it becomes a little bit challenging.”
Sinead Bovell Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 18:51 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)

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Prediction Held up
Bovell: AI will depress wages in modeling and programming
“We're going to see this across the board with AI. It's going to put downward pressure on a lot of different wages from modeling to programming, but that's where it becomes a little bit challenging.”
Sinead Bovell Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 18:51 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
Insight
Bovell: E-commerce modeling is vulnerable to AI due to low pose variability
“And the clear cut for me was fashion especially when it comes to e-commerce a line or a segment of fashion where it's not necessarily about these creative big movements for a fashion model, but instead just small variations in the posing. And that in some ways…”
Sinead Bovell Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 4:36 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
Assertion Partly supported
Bovell: H&M employs thousands of data scientists using AI
“And we can also say a company like H&M, they have Thousands of data scientists that use AI to do things like forecast trends and understand and analyze supply chain.”
Sinead Bovell Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 11:39 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bovell: E-commerce campaigns will let shoppers drop virtual twins into photoshoots
“Where we each get to be the model in the shoots that we see, so instead of just looking at the campaign, there might be an interactive option where you could drop in your own virtual twin to see how you would personally look in that image.”
Sinead Bovell Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 28:39 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
Assertion Supported
Bovell: Zalando demonstrated AI model proof of concept in 2019
“So if you look at e-commerce and a company, although we might not be as familiar with Zulando in America, they're quite a big fashion giant in Europe. For them to be researching this technology and showing very viable proof of concept as early as 2019, we know…”
Sinead Bovell Apr 24, 2023 ▶ 11:21 Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell) Apr 24, 2023 9m
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