Humanitarian AI Today

Daniel Eriksson, Chief Executive Officer of Transparency International

speaks with Brent Phillips, Producer of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series, about Transparency International’s work combatting corruption, sustainable development and the future of transparency initiatives, corporate social responsibility, and artificial intelligence.

Ralf Südhoff, Director at Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA), speaks with Brent Phillips, Producer of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series, about the German humanitarian aid community, CHA’s work, humanitarian operations, cash aid programs, localization initiatives, technology and artificial intelligence.

Colin Koop, a Design Partner with the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) speaks with Brent Phillips, Producer of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series. Colin and Brent discuss architecture, the future of AI education and Colin’s work on MIT’s Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing building and also Colin’s design philosophy embracing complexity and harmony and bringing into balance architectural expression, science, technology, sustainability and carbon consciousness in the modern AI Age.

Jean-Martin Bauer, Senior Digital Advisor from the United Nations World Food Program speaks with Daniel Huttenlocher, the inaugural dean of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing, board chair of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and board member of Corning Inc. and Amazon.com. Jean-Martin and Daniel discuss MIT’s new college, AI education, humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence and a new book co-written by Daniel, Eric Schmidt and Henry Kissinger called the “The Age of AI”. This insightful and cautionary book focuses on AI and our human future, topics that Jean-Martin and Sarah Spencer point out are highly relevant to humanitarian actors.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Christopher Hoffman, Managing Director of Humanity Link and Chairman of the Humanitarian Innovation Funding Committee and board member of Sawa World, about his work building partnerships between companies and humanitarian agencies, humanitarian operations, innovation and humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Jean-Martin Bauer, Senior Digital Advisor from the United Nations World Food Program speaks with Gaurav Menghani, Research Engineer from Google about efficient deep learning, on-device ML and humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Jeremy McKane with the Ocean Currency Network speaks with Ritwik Gupta, a machine learning research scientist from the University of California, Berkeley, and Fernando Paolo, a machine learning engineer with Global Fishing Watch, about two upcoming events: AI + HADR 2021 an Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response workshop and the xView3 Challenge prize competition to identify the best computer vision algorithms to advance the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Mark Dalton from the United Nations speaks with Monica Lam, Professor and Faculty Director of Stanford University's Open Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL) about her team's work and the importance of voice technology to the humanitarian community.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Vilas Dhar, the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a $1.5 billion 21st century philanthropy advancing artificial intelligence and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. A technologist, lawyer and human rights advocate, Vilas is a global thought leader on the intersection of artificial intelligence and technology in the social sector.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Mark Dalton from the United Nations speaks with Jean-Martin Bauer, a Senior Digital Advisor at the World Food Program, about WFP data collection and hunger mapping initiatives and uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning.