Kriti Sharma

Kriti Sharma

Kriti Sharma

Kriti is an Artificial Intelligence technologist and a leading global voice on AI ethics and its impact on society. In addition to advising global software companies such as Sage, she focuses on AI for Social Good. She built her first robot at the age of 15 in India and has been building AI technologies to solve global issues ever since, from productivity to education to domestic violence. Kriti was recently named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for advancements in AI and was included in the Recode 100 list of key influencers in technology in 2017 alongside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. She was elected as a Civic Leader by the Obama Foundation for her work in ethical technology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Google Grace Hopper Scholar and recently advised the UK Parliament in the House of Lords on AI Policy. Kriti frequently writes about her views on the ethics of AI in global media such as Fortune, BBC, Harvard Business Review, The Times, Financial Times and TechCrunch.

Why I Tech


It has the potential to change the world. Most often for better.

#ada18’s motto is ideas to change the world – my tech idea is


That the tech world is learning from the mistakes it has accidentally made – From racist AI to Russian bots to fake news. And that we have Susan Fowlers!