Years after Martin Luther King Jr’s riveting recountal of his dream for the future of America, theoverturning of “separate but equal” Jim Crow laws, and much hand-wringing by liberal Americans,racial segregation in the cities was continuing unabated. Perplexed by this…
Understanding the need of compassionate behaviour for a prosocial community You are on a zoom call, near the end of a long day spent in front of your laptop screen, and the person on the other end appears to have…
“We want to bring about a paradigm shift in the startup investment space, push for legislation to support startups and build more innovation hubs and incubators,” says Robert Karanja, Villgro Africa’s cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer. Villgro Africa is a…
There is such a thing as robophobia — an anxiety disorder defined by the irrational fear of technological advances in robotics, which encompasses drones, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). As Baun et al. noted, the underlying fear is that of artificially intelligent…
On the role of uncertainty in evolution, markets, neuroscience, and AI The world is unpredictable in many ways. This has been the natural state of affairs for all living beings fighting an uphill battle for survival within an ever-evolving world.…