Interviews

The current health crisis has brought home in a dramatic way the benefits and perils of transformative technologies.  Donald G. McNeil Jr. reports that a health company has been able to use temperature readings from its electronic thermometers to assess the...

Francis Djirackor is the Executive Director of Elris Communications Services Ltd, providing engineering and other professional services in the telecommunications, broadcast and IT space in Nairobi.  Francis is also a leader at Nairobi Chapel, a dynamic collection of...

On January 30, Union Theological Seminary, in conjunction with Riverside Church, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and The Greater Good Initiative, presented an all-day program in New York City on Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Ethics and...

Hi Jane. Please tell us about your academic background and interests. Hello.  My academic background is in religious studies and philosophy, with some applied ethics mixed in.  I have a  Master’s Degree on Religion in the Contemporary World. My PhD was a comparative...

Thomas, for someone doing research at the Tufts’ Human-Robot Interaction Lab, you have a rather interesting background. Tell us about that. My academic training is in philosophy, classics, and religious studies, so my research interests have traveled down a little bit...

Hi Muhammad. Please tell us a bit about your background and what has motivated your interest in AI?   I have had a keen interest in foundational questions of life and the cosmos since childhood e.g., why are we here? what is the nature of life? how is intelligent...