AWS re:Invent 2025 - From principles to practice: Scaling AI responsibly with Indeed (AIM3323)
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Introduction
Mike Diamond, Principal Product Lead for Responsible AI at AWS, and Lewis Baker, Senior Data Science Manager and Head of Responsible AI at Indeed, discuss scaling AI responsibly.
Use‑Case Examples
Real‑Estate Property Descriptions
- Ensure generated text is inclusive of all buyer demographics.
- Verify property features are accurate and free of hallucinations.
- Prevent leakage of private details from previous owners.
- Avoid unsafe or illegal content in images.
E‑Commerce Shopping Agent
- Provide personalized, yet equitable, recommendations across demographics.
- Guard against unauthorized charges or budget overruns.
- Protect personal data across payment rails.
- Defend against manipulation attacks that could trigger unauthorized refunds at scale.
Industry Context
The OECD AI monitor tracks incidents and hazards. In October 2025, it recorded 509 incidents—a 95 % increase from the previous year—reflecting the rapid expansion of generative AI.
AWS Responsible AI Framework
AWS defines responsible AI across eight dimensions:
- Controllability – mechanisms to monitor and steer AI behavior.
- Privacy & Security – proper handling of data and models.
- Safety – preventing harmful misuse such as scams.
- Fairness – assessing impact on different stakeholder groups.
- Veracity & Robustness – delivering correct outputs despite unexpected or adversarial inputs.
- Explainability – understanding and evaluating outputs.
- Transparency – enabling stakeholders to make informed choices.
- Governance – best‑practice management of the technical properties above.
Challenges in Scaling Responsible AI
- Expertise Gap: Each dimension requires specialized knowledge (e.g., fairness metrics, robustness testing).
- Tool Integration: Numerous open‑source and vendor tools exist, but assembling them into a cohesive lifecycle solution is difficult.
- Resource Constraints: Teams often face backlogs (e.g., a healthcare client with >1,000 use‑case reviews).
- Compliance Burden: Varying regulations (EU, Colorado, California) and standards such as ISO 42001 demand evidence in specific formats.
Risk‑Mitigation Strategies
Mike Diamond outlines three overarching approaches applicable to any risk:
Baking
Incorporate desired behavior directly into the model or data pipeline.
- Bias mitigation: Curate training datasets with balanced demographic distributions.
- Hallucination reduction: Use Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) to ground outputs in factual sources.
Filtering
Apply post‑generation checks to block or modify undesirable outputs before they reach end users.
Guiding
Provide runtime guidance, such as prompts or policy constraints, to steer model behavior during inference.
AWS Responsible AI Lens
The newly published AWS Responsible AI Lens in the Well‑Architected Tool helps teams assess and improve their AI systems against the eight dimensions. It offers checklists, best‑practice recommendations, and integration points for the baking, filtering, and guiding strategies.
Indeed’s Practical Implementation
Lewis Baker shares how Indeed operationalizes responsible AI for Career Scout, which processes 10.6 million AI responses monthly:
- AI Constitution: A set of guiding principles embedded into the development workflow.
- Guardrails: 17 active safeguards covering bias, privacy, safety, and other dimensions.
- Infrastructure Model: The responsible AI team functions as an internal platform, providing reusable components and services to R&D teams rather than acting as a gate‑keeping policy checkpoint.
Key Takeaways
- Responsible AI must be embedded from the design phase; treating it as a downstream policy check is insufficient.
- Combining baking, filtering, and guiding offers a comprehensive risk‑mitigation toolkit.
- Organizational success hinges on platform‑level support (e.g., AWS Lens, Indeed’s AI Constitution) that scales expertise across many use cases.
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