{"id":729167,"date":"2023-11-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=729167"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T07:40:28","slug":"lets-talk-ai-ey-africas-kavi-pather-unpacks-the-challenges-businesses-face-when-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/729167\/lets-talk-ai-ey-africas-kavi-pather-unpacks-the-challenges-businesses-face-when-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk AI \u2013 EY Africa\u2019s Kavi Pather unpacks the challenges businesses face when using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Let\u2019s Talk AI interview with Michael Avery, Kavi Pather \u2013 EY Africa Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Leader \u2013 discusses the challenges of unlocking the potential of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pather holds an Honours degree in Actuarial Science from Wits University and a Masters in Integrated Innovation in Products and Services from Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also served an Associate Lecturer at Wits University and is now a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pather joined EY Africa as an Actuarial, Quants, and Data Science Leader in 2016, before assuming his current role in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, Pather took up a second position as EY Africa\u2019s Global Insurance Generative AI Coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let\u2019s Talk AI interview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Pather unpacks the key challenges businesses face when trying to unlock the potential of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He talks about the risks associated with using AI, particularly when employees are uneducated about the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pather also discusses the ethical use of AI and the importance of AI regulations before suggesting what the future could hold for AI in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Kavi Pather below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0CyAw6HRHo?si=NZB1P0YKOqykcjde\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview, EY Africa\u2019s Kavi Pather discusses the challenges businesses face in trying to unlock the potential of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":729171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[7955,16804,18550],"class_list":["post-729167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ey","tag-kavi-pather","tag-lets-talk-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729419,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729167\/revisions\/729419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}