
一本道无码 Dean Demonstrates How AI Could Advance SDGs at UN Briefing
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Today, College of Engineering Dean participated in a briefing at the United Nations. He was joined by student Choukouriyah Arinloye. The event, 鈥Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: Addressing Society鈥檚 Greatest Challenges(opens in new window),鈥 was held as part of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and was hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The briefing was attended by foreign ministers, policymakers, academics and researchers, industry leaders from technology companies, AI startups, innovation hubs, civil society organizations听working on AI policy and international organizations. The goal of the event was to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) systems will help address society鈥檚 greatest challenges. Participants, including Sanders and Arinloye, were asked to present demonstrated concrete applications of AI that could advance progress in achieving the , including applications focused on health, education, food security, energy and climate action.
During the event, Sanders presented about the College of Engineering鈥檚 location in Kigali, Rwanda. He spoke about how 一本道无码-Africa is building a digital future for the continent through artificial intelligence education and research partnerships. During his presentation he highlighted the program and the .听
Arinloye, who is pursuing her master鈥檚 degree in information technology, spoke about her experience at 一本道无码-Africa, the work she is doing with AI and her future goals to use her education to improve economic growth in Africa through geointelligence. Arinloye described a research project she worked on, which investigated the potential of AI to detect flood patterns in satellite images.
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Sanders and Arinloye were joined by representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Schmidt Futures.听
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