An expert says executive pressure to deploy AI is a problem for industry as the technology is increasingly seen as essential for competitiveness.

Sahab Aslam, founder of Vectorify Labs and the AI sector lead at the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York, was a featured speaker during yesterday’s Wisconsin Technology Council luncheon in Madison.

She said there’s been a departure from “all the testing and the rigor we used to do before” as company leaders seek to meet business objectives around AI.

“Sometimes it’s just like, we’ve got to do it, otherwise we’re going to be behind,” said Aslam, who’s also a graduate faculty member in data science at the University of California, Berkeley. “And it’s a little bit different kind of urgency than solving a problem.”

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