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How AI can be used for good
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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear “artificial intelligence?” Is it Terminator robots coming to destroy humanity? Getting texts from companies to buy products after you signed into Facebook?
There are a variety of applications for AI to benefit humanity, and not just thinking of better ways to sell us products or increase surveillance. People like Neil Sahota are working to change the fears surrounding AI by building systems designed to solve major problems like poverty, health care disparities, climate change and financial inequity.