Fireside Chat on Building AI for Humanity: Research, Policy, and Practice

Join Watson Senior Fellow Malika Saada Saar ’92, former Global Head of Human Rights at YouTube, for a fireside chat on Building AI for Humanity with Erin Teague, Chief Product Officer at Character.AI (https://character.ai/).Erin Teague (https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinteague/) is the Chief Product Officer at Character.AI where she is responsible for the product management, design, user research, data science, marketing and community functions. Prior to her current position, she was a senior director of product management at Google. In this role, she served as the product and technical advisor to Google’s Chief Technologist across important product areas including Search, Gemini, Ads, Maps, Assistant, Payments, Shopping and Long-term Bets product areas. Prior to this role, she was the global product lead across several YouTube verticals including Sports, Film, and TV. She led YouTube’s Virtual and Augmented Reality product team, where she was responsible for immersive video and created the YouTube VR app, which is rated #1 across multiple platforms. She also founded and led YouTube’s Racial Justice, Equity, and Product Inclusion product teams. Before YouTube, Teague was the director of product for Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports and product manager at Twitter. She began her career as a software engineer at Morgan Stanley, where she designed algorithms embedded in electronic trading applications in the firm’s Algorithmic Trading Technology group. Teague is the recipient of the BET Her Tech Maven Award and has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley” by Silicon Valley Business Journal, “The Next Generation of Tech Stars” by Refinery29, “40 Under 40 in Silicon Valley.” She has also been named one of Glamour Magazine’s “35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry” and one of Business Insider’s “Silicon Valley 100.” Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Teague holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Morgan Stanley Fellow, and a BSE in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, where she graduated with distinction as an Intel Scholar.Malika Saada Saar (https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/senior-fellows/malika-saada-saar) is a highly accomplished human rights lawyer with extensive experience in civil and human rights law, tech policy development, multi-stakeholder engagement, and the responsible governance and use of AI. As Google’s Global Head of Human Rights at YouTube, she led a team responsible for integrating human rights principles across Trust & Safety, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Legal, and Product teams.