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AI&F Well-Situated to Catalyze in a Deeply Disrupted Time
We are living in an extraordinary time of global disruption: a persistent pandemic, accelerating climate change, a new appreciation of the extent of deeply embedded racial injustice, growing authoritarianism and vocal populism, deep political polarization, a new...
Reflections on Technology and Social Justice
In continuing recognition of the importance of the racial justice conversation for ethical AI in many applications, we are delighted to reprint with permission the following essay from July 7 on the All Things New.Tech blog created by our Founding Member Paul Taylor,...
The Rome Call for AI Ethics: Co-Responsibility and Commitment
At the close of the XXVI General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life in February 2020 – just days before the Italian government would implement nationwide quarantine measures due to the COVID-19 outbreak – academicians, dignitaries, and a host of guests...
Thinking Fast and Slow on the Time/Space Continuum
Our ability to self-consciously “think about our thinking” is one of our species’ foundational distinctives. Social psychology research over the past 40 years has up-ended our understanding of the way we think. It turns out we are much more likely to employ mental...
Faith and AI Things that Got Lost (and Found) in the Pandemic
A blog I follow recently advised organizations to respond to this unexpected pandemic by applying the following template: stabilize, normalize, mobilize, futurize. This makes sense to me, not only for COVID, but the other global disruptors of our age – AI and...
Reflecting on My Time at the Allen Institute for AI
Over the past 9 months I have been one of the Entrepreneurs in Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), one of the world’s leading AI research institutes. I had the wonderful opportunity to engage and learn from some of the top minds in the...