ASU+GSV Summit 2022: Eric Wang on using AI to level the playing field

Thought leaders share ideas with WorkingNation Overheard at the ASU+GSV Summit 2022
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Artificial intelligence can be a tool for accessibility and equity, according to Eric Wang, senior director of Turnitin AI, Turnitin. The platform “ensures original work from students.”

Wang says the company uses AI to weed out bias and inequity.

WorkingNation sat down with Wang at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.

Wang notes another effort to level the playing field is the use of Gradescope. “We use handwriting recognition – AI that allows offline assignments written with pen and paper, scanned on a cell phone to then be digitized, and interact with online assignments or work that was completed in an online fashion.”

“What that allows us to do is significantly lower the barrier of entry of students in terms of using the advanced technologies that we built. In the past, you had to do all your work online which meant you had to have access to high-speed internet. You had to have access to a high-powered laptop. One of the places where AI can start to really level the playing field is that’s not true anymore. You can do work on pen and paper and with a cell phone which is much more ubiquitous.”

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Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.