Assignment on Responsible Artificial Intelligence from Microsoft

Question 1
Part a
Microsoft’s Mission statement is to empower every person and every organization on the planet
to achieve more. This mission forms the foundation of the company to work on the chance and
power to guarantee that the technology created will always have be profitable to each individual
on the planet as well as the planet.
Part b
In my opinion, Microsoft’s vision for 2020 was to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in dealing
with the increasing volumes of data in the markets. The company emphasized on empowering its
customers and contributing to the increasing markets by helping them to transform to the digital
platforms. The company created Azure, a computer that solves the clients’ physical world
regulatory requirements. The company introduced hyper-scale abilities to its relational database
offering the extensive cloud analytics. This is because the fate of applications will be AI and
therefore the company democratized the AI tools and integrated them with Azure Cognitive
Services to ensure that each developer can be able to use services such as see, translate, hear and
respond in their applications. The company has also inaugurated the new HoloLens 2 which
improves the field of view and relief; this suggests that Microsoft aims at improving the versions
and further integrates them with Dynamics 365 and Azure mixed reality services (Microsoft
2020 Annual Report, n.d.).

Part c
A strategic theme is the sector in which an organization must stand out to ensure that the
company attains its vision. Microsoft’s strategic themes in 2020 are; responsible Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Cyber security and Privacy.
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Responsible AI refers to a system that joins critical practices together. It also emphasizes on the
good use, transparent and accountable utilization of all AI technologies in a way that is accordant
to the expectations of the user as well as organizational values and public laws and standards.
(Clarke, 2019). Through AI, Microsoft Corporation has been able to deal with some issues such
as emphasizing on the work of computers. Microsoft has also laid down some initiatives in AI
such as cultural heritage. The company has also played a vital role in eliminating the challenges
associated with the use of AI.
Privacy
Recently, the government and large companies have been accessing the personal data of people.
This protection of is a vital requirement and therefore the data must be safely protected. As a
result, Microsoft values its customers’ privacy and the development of its products and policies
is based on the fact each and every customer has their data that has to be rightly protected.
(Microsoft 2019 Annual Report, n.d.).
Cyber security
Cyber security refers to act of protecting systems and programs against cyber or malicious
attacks. Cyber-attacks cause software and hardware damage as well as loss of data in an

organization. From the shareholder letter, it is evident that cyber security is a key issue to all
customers and therefore the company has invested in improving its cyber security. As a result,
the company processes 6.5trillion signals and verifies billions of emails on a daily basis in an
attempt to curb the spread of malware. The company has also teamed up with other cyber
security companies and public sectors to aid in dealing with the daily arising threats. (Microsoft
2019 Annual Report, n.d.).
Part d
The four stages of data visualization process include;
Step 1: Exploration
This is the first stage in the visualization process and the company is tasked with searching for a
data set in no particular order. From Microsoft’s case, virtual reality is a main challenge at this
stage. For example, Microsoft employees interact with data from business in the third dimension
and they may compare different data patterns without any idea thus causing errors.
Step 2: Examination
Examination of the data visualization process is done through structured methods that identify
categories, trends and other links between the data sets. However, the main challenge at
Microsoft remains to be the shortage in technical skills. This is despite the series of innovations
in data analysis at the company. There are inadequate data scientists to work on peoples’ data
accurately before the combination of visuals.
Step 3: Combining