In this episode of Future of Humanity, we will be talking with Professor Margret Bjarnadottir, one of the world's leading experts on using big data and analytics for doing good. With a Ph.D. from MIT, Margret has used big data and AI to improve opioid prescriptions,  predict colorectal cancer mortality, design drug surveillance mechanisms, and patient targeting. She has also studied the best approaches to remedy the pay-gap problem taking into account both equity and economics. Listen in for a very informative and uplifting conversation. 

As artificial intelligence-based applications are becoming pervasive in every sphere of life, there is a movement to make it more "human-centered". We will be talking with Ben Shneiderman whose pioneering work has led to the Human-Centered AI movement. He is passionate about innovation and the good that AI can do in making our lives much better. He talks to us about how human control and AI automation can work together to make humanity better off than mindlessly pursuing AI-based solutions. Ben has interesting views on where the romance of AI falls down and what the future holds when using AI intelligently.

Turns out, the global covid pandemic could be mitigated much faster if only we had a more equitable distribution of vaccines across the world. There were more 5-year-olds being vaccinated in the U.S. than vulnerable people in places like India and Brazil causing the prolonging of the health impacts for even residents of America. We will be talking with a much-published public health activist, Achal Prabhala who is the current coordinator of the AccessIBSA Project and has been honored across the world with Fellowships and Residencies to work on health equity issues.