The Pulse

Good Health   Ensuring good healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Currently, the world is facing a global health crisis unlike any other — COVID-19 is spreading human suffering, destabilizing

Hunger   After decades of steady decline, the number of people who suffer from hunger – as measured by the prevalence of undernourishment – began to slowly increase again in 2015. Current estimates show that nearly 690

Poverty   Globally, we have seen a decline in poverty from 36 per cent in 1990 to 10 per cent in 2015. An incredible effort that has seen a decrease in pace, and with the COVID-19

Social Media and Machine Learning:  how are the two connected and what is the issue.   Overview Many of the current gatekeepers—and, usually, their creators—of said social networks are large technology companies whose platforms enable the

AI for Good Foundation Fellowship Program Each Summer AI for Good Foundation invites Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-Doctoral applicants for our competitive Summer Fellowship Program. This week, we hear from fellow Dan Zhao:   TELL US A

Extreme drought and floods – How is climate change affecting our world   In March 2022, India saw the hottest month since records began 122 years ago, and Pakistan saw the human tolerance threshold being surpassed

September 2022!   As we say goodbye to summer and fall enters, our newsletter highlights the accomplishments of this year’s Summer Fellows; announces the launch of the next phase of our work in Ukraine; and shares

Mark Minevich Public intellectual and AI-advocate Mark Minevich announced he had signed a deal with publishing titan Wiley for a new book set for release in the fall of 2023. Mark is an award-winning digital cognitive