AI Ignition: Exploring the future of AI in the enterprise

How can AI influence the greater good?  From climate disasters to global health crises to economic inequities, AI can be applied to achieve real social transformation.  In this AI Ignition episode, Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, inspires business leaders to think beyond their organizations to consider the social impact of technology adoption.

How does collaboration between machine learning and biomedicine spur AI innovation? How can these two scientific cultures compliment and support one another? In this AI Ignition episode, Daphne Koller, Founder and CEO of Insitro and Co-founder of Coursera, discusses her vision and experience drawing on the best of both disciplines to create value.

What are the implications of artificial emotional intelligence? How do we mitigate bias in AI to make better human to human connections? In our latest AI Ignition episode, Rana El Kaliouby, Deputy CEO at Smart Eye and former co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, reveals her approach to Emotion AI and her vision to apply it at scale.

Stuart Russell, a professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI explains how we've been thinking about AI incorrectly and how we can course correct to create safer AI that is less biased and successfully performs amidst uncertainty.

How can we leverage AI to help with wellbeing while improving productivity in the workplace and beyond? Rosalind Picard, founder of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT and cofounder of Affectiva, Inc. and Empatica, Inc. discusses how AI can help humans develop mental and physical resilience. Rosalind discusses the need to tie purpose and impact to AI technology beyond value creation while understanding that we cannot replace people with AI.

How do tech companies that are so consumed by the incentive to grow remain true to their missions? Tune into our newest AI Ignition episode featuring Greg Brockman co-founder of OpenAI. Learn how this business model of a non-profit with a capped-for-profit subsidiary effectively allows OpenAI to focus on providing ethical technology to all of humanity.

Harnessing the power of AI can not only improve day-to-day lives, but it can also save lives according Oren Etzioni: the CEO of the AI2, a research institute with a mission of AI for the common good. From AI's potential to curb fatal traffic accidents, to its ability to assist in the fight against COVID-19 and future pandemics, the development of AI applications will likely prevail to be one of the biggest lifesavers in the history of technology.

Every technical development begins with the belief that it is possible, according to Cade Metz, a technology correspondent at The New York Times and author of Genius Makers. In this episode, Metz recounts moments in history when innovators transformed highly skeptic conceptions of AI into technical realities thanks to a firm belief that it was possible. Will the belief in artificial general intelligence (AGI) prove society wrong yet again and prevail to be the next life-changing technical reality?

How can we understand the difference between what the AI machine sees versus what the human sees? Explainability is how (and the why). Join Jana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics and self-proclaimed math and computer nerd, as she explains the importance of explainability in AI.

As AI continues to be deployed across a wide array of industries, companies and governments must set good governance and ethical foundations in order for successful human-machine collaboration. Tune in to our conversation with Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of AI and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum, as she shares her expertise on strategically and ethically implementing AI.