Who controls the future of AI? Will AI widen the wealth gap? What kinds of innovations and policies are needed to guide AI’s impact? These are just a few of the questions addressed in our latest eye-opening PARC Forum. NYT best-selling author of Empire of AI, Karen Hao, joined Karen Myers, director of SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center, and Christiana McFarland, PhD, director of SRI’s Center for Innovation, Strategy, and Policy, to address AI business practices, transparency, community-based economic development, and more. Watch the full conversation: https://bit.ly/4jnML7W Listen to the PARC Forum podcast: https://bit.ly/4dAthM6 #PARCForum #AI #LLM (fb)

What does the future of robot and human teamwork look like? SRI scientists developed a new AI-based approach to robotics that enables mobile robots to understand context, engage in back-and-forth conversations, and work alongside humans. This new robotics framework could lead to teams of search-and-rescue robots that explore scenes of natural disasters, household robots that respond to commands like “wash the dishes,” or even factories of robots that chat as they work. Read more about the project: https://bit.ly/3SmQFTy (fb)