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ADP aims to measure and reveal AI bias rather than eliminate it
“And what we said was, is that we don't believe that bias doesn't exist. In fact, we believe it does exist. And so our role isn't to mitigate all bias, but our role is to at least measure it, understand it, and express it, and make sure that people understand i…”
ADP rejected federated queries to maintain a centralized analytics repository
“The piece we didn't bring from the data mesh was the notion of federated query. Because the problem with federated query is the latency of the query is the worst performing member of the federated group. Right? And so we still have a centralized data repositor…”
ADP uses Databricks for its data layer and Snowflake for analytics workloads
“We use Databricks as our, as that data layer, and we use Snowflake to do very specialized analytical database workloads that it's very, very good at.”
ADP chose Informatica over cloud startups to support legacy on-premise data systems
“We went with Informatica, and the reason why we're on Informatica is very clear. Not, as Spencer was saying, not everything is in the cloud. And unfortunately for startups, they're making decisions about where to build, and so they're building in the cloud. In…”
ADP includes external experts on its AI Ethics Board under NDA
“We have external people on that as well. We have industry experts. We invite external representation. People that aren't associated with the company, except for the ethics board participate. They're under NDA. They see exactly what we're doing in terms of prod…”
Startups only get a meeting if ADP already knows their work
“At least in my team, they don't get the meeting if we didn't actually already know what they were doing.”
Berkowitz: ADP treats client employees as consumers with privacy opt-out rights
“The first thing we did after our bias statement is take a decision that we want to treat the employees of our clients as consumers. And so, each employee has the ability to opt out.”
ADP uses MLflow, SageMaker, and Robust Intelligence for MLOps and security
“We do use an awful lot of MLflow for our MLOps. We do SageMaker work. We're working with this really interesting company called Robust Intelligence in California that's helping us with bias monitoring, compliance, supply chain attacks on machine learning”