A Global Perspective on AI in EducationIn November, I traveled to Doha for the eleventh WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) Summit, organized by Qatar Foundation (which…Jan 10, 20241Jan 10, 20241
4 Technologists Debate the Future of AICan we trust artificial intelligence? Will it take our jobs? Can it be creative? Those were some of the topics that came up last month when…Nov 30, 2022Nov 30, 2022
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The Future of the Brain: Implants, Ethics, and AINeuroscience is a humbling enterprise. As a wise person once said, if the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would…Dec 31, 2019Dec 31, 2019
The Future of Cities: Entrepreneurship, Self-Driving Cars, and SurveillanceAccording to the UN, more than half the world’s population lives in cities, and by 2050 that number will exceed two-thirds. Cities will…Dec 30, 2019Dec 30, 2019
Can Artificial Intelligence Increase Our Morality?In discussions of AI ethics, there’s a lot of talk of designing “ethical” algorithms, those that produce behaviors we like. People have…Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019
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