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While the media focuses on the negative news to grab your attention, the world is rapidly improving. One of the pockets of this positive change is Saudi Arabia which recently committed spending about 2.5% of GDP on R&D and prioritized longevity biotechnology as the industry of the future.

I interviewed nine of the most brilliant minds in AI. Each of them possesses a unique perspective, vastly different paths to the world of AI, one-of-a-kind approaches and principles on how AI can be used ethically to bring about positive change. What if we were able to create one singular AI mind?

The Boston-based startup has impressed investors like Baillie Gifford with its work to bring autonomy to U.S. Air Force C-130J transport planes and a canny strategy that could make it the first company to win safety approval for a semi-autonomous flight control system in a civil aircraft.

Justin Chen received his PhD in Physics from Rice University before deciding to make the jump from academia to machine learning. He spent the last few years as a Machine Learning Engineer at Manifold before making the jump to Google. Learn more about his journey into the field of ML and use cases

AI has the alarming possibility of promulgating AI-steeped biases at scale, massive scale. This dire aspect is worthy of considering, along with how to deal with it, and highlighted via examples involving AI-based self-driving cars.

Over 103,000 overdose death occurred last year. Thankfully, 75% of those who experience addiction eventually recover. Author and advocate Maureen Cavanagh explains how addiction can happen in any family, and how we should reinvent how we view substance abuse to be part of the solution.

The IEEE Medal of Honor, established in 1917, is the highest IEEE award. 2022 awardee Dr. Asad M. Madni shares his career, deep insights, lessons, the future.

It’s been almost 5 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Two activists leverage Crypto currency and decentralized technology to support the war efforts in Ukraine.

Khyati Sundaram is the CEO and Chairperson of Applied. Founded in 2016, Applied’s mission is to be the essential platform for unbiased hiring. Throughout the company’s history, Applied has been hesitant to use machine learning on its platform — until now. Find out why.

Gaslighting edgelords and online goaders have turned to saying outlandish things about AI and AI Ethics as a means of disturbing otherwise salient conversations.

Why is Cruise suffering fleet shutdowns and what can they do better? If nobody is getting hurt, how much should these hiccups be tolerated?

Aurora Solar's platform uses computer vision to help solar companies rapidly design systems tailored to customers' specific needs. Its proprietary measurement and modeling technologies help speed up and lower the cost of solar power installations.

For startup-founders, what is the path to weathering this economic downturn. We curated a list of US and Canadian seasoned investors to convey their perspectives on the state of the market and what this means for valuations, resource allocation and raising money during this precarious period.

AI is a game-changing critical enabler that has the potential to speed up humanity's race against climate change. With AI, we have a chance to build a more resilient future for us all. AI can help reducing emissions, improving energy efficiency, and increasing the use of renewable energy sources

AR is now being applied to more focused arenas, including in the manufacturing sector. That focus may finally bring the ROI to an investment in AR and AI that will spread both more widely.

The ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is celebrating its 75 year anniversary in 2022. Yannis Ioannidis 2022-2024 ACM President.

Malav Shah is a Data Scientist II at DIRECTV. In this wide-ranging interview, he shares best practices for deploying machine learning models at the forefront of media and telecommunications.

Techies in AI tend to embrace optimization, but this traditionally has left AI Ethics considerations at the wayside, so the latest hope is to get AI Ethics into the optimization mindset at the get-go.

Alexandr Wang, 25, is the youngest self-made billionaire. And while he still partners with buzzy companies, today he’s got $350 million in government defense contracts under his company, Scale AI.

News headlines are talking about a study in China that purportedly used AI-based facial recognition and brainwave detection to aid in detecting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) loyalty, which smacks of considerable AI Ethics qualms and could have consequences globally about oppressive uses of AI.