Dr. Susan Leavy:

Yes. The Senator made two important points on the demographics and the latest figures. She is right in that whoever creates these systems, their values will be imbued on those systems and on the data on which the systems are trained. By and large, the large language models are trained on the Internet. As a result, there is a lot of US-based and western data involved.

There are things we do in research such as, for example, participatory design. This relates to when you are designing a system and you get various stakeholders and other people involved. The values and the needs of those people go into the design of that AI from the get-go.