Summary: <p>Artificial intelligence (AI), once a niche discipline within computer science, has blossomed over the past decade—including in the social sector. In this recording from our <a href="https://ssir.org/events/entry/frontiers_of_social_innovation_2018">2018 Frontiers of Social Innovation conference</a>, Johanna Mair, academic editor at <em>SSIR</em> and a professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, speaks with AI expert Lab Fei-Fei Li about the growing importance of AI to the social sector and the imperative to improve representation within the community of AI technologists. Li <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opinion/artificial-intelligence-human.html">is an advocate</a> of “human-centered AI”—an approach emphasizing human psychology, augmentation rather than replacement, and social and human impact—and in 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in AI. Li argues that including people of diverse backgrounds is important to putting fears about the technology at bay.</p> <p>“We know AI will change the world,” Li says. “The real question is who is going to change AI?”</p><br><a href="https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/fostering_a_human_centered_approach_to_artificial_intelligence">https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/fostering_a_human_centered_approach_to_artificial_intelligence</a>
