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AIWS Summit 2020: Discussing and building the AIWS Social Contract 2020

AIWS Summit 2020: Discussing and building the AIWS Social Contract 2020

From 27 to 29 of April 2020, at Harvard University and MIT, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid are co-organizing a transatlantic and multi-stakeholder dialogue on global challenges and policy solutions in the context of the need...

How To Teach Artificial Intelligence

How To Teach Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence—code that learns—is likely to be humankind’s most important invention. It’s a 60-year-old idea that took off five years ago when fast chips enabled massive computing and sensors, cameras, and robots fed data-hungry algorithms. We’re a couple of...

Tracking Coronavirus with AI

Tracking Coronavirus with AI

The coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, continues deadly. More than 31,000 people have now been contracted in China and 630 people have died, per latest figures released by authorities. As the virus already became a global health emergency, AI researchers are...

Alex Pentland hosted Imagination in Action on January 21 at Davos 2020

Alex Pentland hosted Imagination in Action on January 21 at Davos 2020

MIT IDE co-founders, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, participated in several panel discussions and interviews at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as did  IDE co-lead Sandy Pentland. In a year when the main headlines dominating the week were...