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Artificial intelligence is expected to have tremendous societal impact across the globe in the near future. Now Luis Videgaray PhD ’98, former foreign minister and finance minister of Mexico, is coming to MIT to spearhead an effort that aims to help shape global AI policies, focusing on how such rising technologies will affect people living in all corners of the world. Starting this month, Videgaray, an expert in geopolitics and AI policy, will serve as director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Policy for the World Project (MIT AIPW), a collaboration between the MIT Sloan School of Management and the new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Videgaray will also serve as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan and as a distinguished fellow at the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative. The MIT AIPW will bring together researchers from across the Institute to explore and analyze best AI policies for Continue reading Visiting lecturer to spearhead project exploring the geopolitics of artificial intelligence→

Tennis is a game of tradition, best typified by Wimbledon. However, technology is taking over control of the British Open, as an AI is now independently … More details