Demystifying AI: From medicine to infrastructure | Anita Raja | TEDxCUNY - Video

What is AI, and what is it not? This talk explores AI’s history, transformative impact in medicine and infrastructure, and its societal challenges, including bias and ethics. Through real-world examples, discover how responsible AI can drive innovation and benefit humanity. Anita Raja is a Professor of Computer Science at Hunter College and a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research contribution is in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in the study of decentralized control and reasoning in software agent systems operating in the context of uncertainty and limited computational resources. She directs the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Lab at Hunter College. Her work is supported by grants from NSF, NIH, ONR, DARPA, DHS and PNNL and received best paper awards and the NIH Decoding Maternal Morbidity Challenge Award. She received a B.S. Honors in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics summa cum laude from Temple University, Philadelphia in 1996, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1998 and 2003 respectively. She is a senior member of AAAI . This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx