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Individuals are the unsung heroes shaping the UAE's AI landscape
Emerging markets
Decades ago, the UAE embarked on its digital transformation. This cosmopolitan state at the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula is now a global AI powerhouse. Abdulla Ahmed Alkaabi, Senior Director of Technology Consulting at PwC Middle East, shows how foot soldiers achieved this.
Abdulla Ahmed Alkaabi  |  Oct 18 , 2023
Big Tech wants to govern AI not with humanity, but on its behalf
Governance
As regards AI governance, Big Tech is likely to prioritize its own interests over those of humanity. Bart de Witte, an expert on digital transformation in healthcare and founder of Berlin-based non-profit HIPPO AI, warns of thus setting a wolf to watch over the flock.
Bart de Witte  |  Oct 17 , 2023
The Yuan Project is a new initiative to bring our contributors together
New era
The Yuan is proud to unveil The Yuan Project, its latest initiative to help bring its online community of global experts together, connect, and share ideas as they seek to achieve new breakthroughs in the field of medical AI.
Jack Kotin  |  Oct 16 , 2023
Does AI development need to hit the brakes or the gas pedal?
Emerging markets
Many leading experts argue AI is developing too quickly and that a pause is needed, while others vigorously urge the contrary. Guardrails are needed either way, asserts Simone Castello, a former BBC journalist who is now Science Communicator at Cambridge University.
Simone Castello  |  Oct 16 , 2023
AI: Unleashing the drug discovery revolution for a healthier tomorrow
New era
AI has brought about a remarkable transformation in the realm of drug discovery, which was previously plagued by inefficiency and a significant failure rate. The historical inefficiencies in drug discovery are swiftly becoming a thing of the past, and the repercussions for the healthcare industry are monumental, as highlighted by Dr Dilraj Kaur, a bioinformatic scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
Dilraj Kaur  |  Oct 13 , 2023
AI turbocharges health data mining, enhances lifespans, healthspans
Generic
AI is increasingly making healthcare more personalized by enabling mining and analysis of more health data, and enhancing healthspans and lifespans so people stay healthier for longer, per digital health expert Eduard Musinschi and health psychology researcher Lorena Antonovici.
Eduard Musinschi, Lorena Antonovici  |  Oct 12 , 2023
AI chatbots shine healthcare light on India’s rural residents
Optimization
Healthcare treads a rocky road worldwide. Lack of access to treatment is a major stumbling block, above all in India’s countryside, but AI now rides to the rescue to early detect cataracts and such chronic age-related eye ailments, as The Yuan contributor Priyanjit Ghosh relates.
Priyanjit Ghosh  |  Oct 11 , 2023
AI must benefit everyone, not just the powerful and privileged
Cognition
AI is wreaking swift change in nearly all aspects of life and, while some have benefited tremendously, others risk being left behind unless AI becomes more inclusive and equitable, asserts Cambridge University Public Policy Prof Diane Coyle.
Diane Coyle  |  Oct 10 , 2023
Hyper-personalization 2.0 to mean AI-driven individualized experiences
Game-changers
Personalized experiences are nothing new, but as the world becomes more digitalized and AI-driven, personalization will hit new levels and offer previously unimaginable possibilities for governments, companies, and individuals, writes Iman Oubou, co-founder and CEO of Vocable.ai.
Iman Oubou  |  Oct 09 , 2023
Forget AI’s potential, it is already irrevocably changing everything
Cognition
Talk of AI’s future potential often overlooks its myriad current capabilities and the epic changes it has already wrought in the world, for both better and worse. Princeton University History Prof Harold James draws on lessons from the past to presage a stark impending reality.
Harold James  |  Oct 06 , 2023
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Janna Lipenkova
Janna Lipenkova is a computational linguist who speaks seven languages. She heads two companies, Anacode and Equintel, that use AI to deliver cutting-edge business intelligence and guide clients towards smarter decisions, strategy, and execution.
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker
Philip M. Parker is Professor of Marketing at INSEAD and the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science.His research explores why existing theories governing macroeconomic growth and firm level competition yield unreliable forecasts of actual market outcomes. He introduced the idea that physical sciences should be directly integrated into macroeconomic studies.
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari
Ganes Kesari is an entrepreneur, AI thought leader, author, adjunct professor, and TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Innovation Titan, a data-science thought leadership and advisory firm. He advises executives on data-driven leadership and helps organizations adopt a culture of data for decision-making.
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter
Johannes Walter is head of department and scientific director of digitalization and digital association development at Diakonie Baden as well as associate professor at IU International University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on AI in healthcare and digital transformation in the social and healthcare sector.
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme
Nikolaj van Omme is chief executive officer of Funartech, an AI startup that provides creative solutions to complex industrial problems by combining machine learning and applied mathematics. He is a strong proponent of hybrid methods and approaches, in particular the hybridization of machine learning and operations research.
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher
Shanen Boettcher is a former General Manager of Microsoft’s Startup Business Group, which oversees the innovation of Microsoft’s core businesses. He also holds a PhD in human-machine communication and AI from the University of St Andrews, and has experience operationalizing strategy, developing global award-winning products, building tools and guidance for high-tech startups at Responsible Innovation Labs, and working as a product strategist for AI21 Labs, a leading artificial intelligence and large language model startup.
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch
Austin Lentsch is a policy fellow at MIT’s Blueprint Labs.
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Tonny Huang
Manager at Kearney.
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Betty Pio
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Keena Patel-Moran
Partner at Kearney.