Steve Watson
easyJet (United Kingdom)
Testers and AI - Being The Human In The Loop
As future generations grow up with AI as an embedded part of their lives, there is a danger that an over-reliance on AI tooling will replace the ability to think for ourselves and have a detrimental effect on critical thinking abilities.
This creates a risk that future AI models and tools will reflect the biases of a small group of creators without human oversight.
My talk addresses why this matters, discusses studies which indicate a decline in cognitive ability, and challenge the audience to use AI tools to complement their skills and not replace them.
I will offer practical ways in which to home our analytical skills, discuss our role in tool usage, and show examples of how I collaborated with AI to use personas to help create an effective testing approach.
The talk will close with key takeaways and references for attendees to study afterwards.
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Steve Watson is an international award winning conference speaker and a highly experienced Quality Engineering Manager who leads and coaches testing teams to help them to be the best they can be.
As a Senior QE Manager at easyJet, he is responsible for the overall testing strategy and standards within the Airline Operations area, managing an offshore testing function. His mission is to ensure that Quality Engineering is embedded as early as possible to add value, working with key business and IT stakeholders to identify improvement areas and gain buy-in and support to implement change.
Steve has vast experience in a variety of domains – banking & finance, vehicle leasing, chemical pricing and aerospace, and other than a brief stint as a Product Manager and then Project Manager, he has spent most of his professional career in the testing & quality engineering space.
As a member of the British Computer Society, Steve cares about improving how we test as an industry, and he writes a blog to share his personal thoughts and ideas – http://stevethedoc.wordpress.com/
When Steve is not testing, you’ll find him broadcasting a Saturday lunchtime radio show on a local community station in East Sussex, UK, where he has volunteered for the past 14 years.
