Sarah Bird

Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI at Microsoft

Sarah Bird, Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI at Microsoft, where she ensures the ethical development of AI applications like Microsoft's Copilot and the new Bing AI.

Dr. Bird earned her MS and PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, where she was advised by Turing Award winner Dave Patterson.

Career Highlights:

► Before 2013: Interned at IBM, Google and Microsoft. At Microsoft, she helped improve the manufacturing test process for the Xbox 360’s processors.
► 2013: Served at Microsoft as a Technical Advisor, working on the company’s machine learning systems.
► 2017: Joined Facebook as a Technical Program Manager, working on Facebook’s AI research and applied machine learning systems.
► 2019: Returned to Microsoft to lead their responsible AI initiatives and lead the Responsible AI development for Github Copilot.

Under Bird's leadership, Microsoft helped define the requirements for Microsoft’s Responsible AI standard. She also contributed to the company’s Responsible AI tools including Fairlearn, SmartNoise and InterpretML.

One of my fave quotes from Dr. Bird on the power of AI:

“This technology has the amazing ability to meet people where they are. That gives it the potential to be the bridge to all other technologies or other complex systems.”