🎙️ Finding Your Place in AI Ethics Consulting | Lunchtime BABLing 10
Wondering how your skills—whether in UX, law, research, or another field—can lead to a career in AI ethics, governance, and responsible AI consulting? BABL AI CEO Dr. Shea Brown explains how to translate your background into a path in algorithmic auditing, AI compliance, and governance work—plus why most AI ethics roles aren’t purely technical.

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⏱️ Chapters
00:00 – Intro: “Finding Your Place in AI Ethics Consulting”
02:33 – How Dr. Shea Brown got started in AI auditing
04:18 – Business drivers behind AI ethics
05:11 – Why risk mitigation is core to AI governance
06:55 – Spotting, researching and communicating risk
07:55 – Mapping skills to AI ethics consulting
08:45 – Specialized skills: bias testing, UX, audits
10:03 – Legal and stakeholder governance experience
10:29 – The UX angle in AI risk management
11:09 – Explainable AI and transferable tech skills
12:44 – Do you need technical skills?
13:15 – Socio-technical systems: people vs. tech
15:34 – CEDA framework: Context, Inputs, Decision, Action
16:31 – Why most AI ethics tasks aren’t technical
17:32 – Bringing domain expertise to AI governance
18:24 – Industries already disrupted by AI
19:24 – Applying sector-specific knowledge
21:19 – Gaining experience through case studies
24:15 – Degree, background and certifications
24:53 – Technical awareness vs. coding fluency
25:57 – Study habits and degree level impacts
28:46 – Dr. Brown’s journey into AI auditing
29:30 – Finding your niche in ethical AI
33:30 – Turning case studies into procedure
36:30 – Empirical vs. theoretical learning
37:59 – Encouragement to pursue your own ethics questions

📌 What You’ll Learn
🔵 How to map your existing skills to AI ethics and governance consulting
🔵 Why most AI ethics roles are socio-technical, not purely technical
🔵 The specialized skills—like bias testing, UX, and audits—that set you apart
🔵 How domain expertise from law, research, UX, or policy translates into AI governance

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🔖 Keywords
AI ethics, algorithmic auditing, responsible AI, AI compliance, explainable AI, tech careers, AI training, governance consulting

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