With Carnegie Mellon University: K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies; Executive Director, Center for Shared Prosperity; Director, Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab (http://www.cmucreatelab.org); Trustee, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Southwestern Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, Airviz, Inc.
Impacts of the nature and climate crisis are gaining pace. July 2023 was the hottest month recorded in human history. Weather, climate and water disasters have increased five-fold in 50 y...
We live in an age of change. Data collection has gone exponential, so much so that more information was collected in the last few years than was recorded in all of human history. At the s...
Nation states are looking increasingly outdated and even dangerous. Some of them are outright belligerent, and threatening catastrophic war. While some nation states are exhibiting neo-im...
How far are we in developing intelligent robots that can live and operate safely among us? Will automation take our jobs, or help us do our jobs better? How do we design machines that can...
The current refugee crisis is the most significant since the second world war. This discussion is loud and complex, and thin on facts. Here we present some conclusions drawn from visualiz...
