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Interview with Payson Stevens

Payson R. Stevens was President and Creative Director of InterNetwork, Inc. and InterNetwork Media, Inc., science/consulting groups with clients in government, industry, and academia. He has received the US Presidential Award for Design Excellence. Originally trained in molecular biology at the City University of New York and in biological oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UC San Diego, Stevens also studied at the Arts Students League and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has been involved with traditional and new media as an artist, designer, writer, and filmmaker for over 50 years. Since 2000 he has supported philanthropic activities, benefiting the Great Himalayan National Park and humanitarian work in India. He is now exploring the role of AI in society, including authoring a book entitled "Before AI Decides: Nine Ways to Stay Human".

 

Dear Payson,

Your recent book addresses a general audience but many of the points you…

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Interview with Talmo Pereira

Guy Salvesen and Giovanni Paternostro have interviewed Talmo Pereira, a Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Salk Institute. His lab builds computational tools that leverage deep learning and computer vision to study complex biological systems. He has developed widely used tools that track movements for animal studies of behavior (1).

 

Dear Talmo,

What could be achieved if there was a public or nonprofit AI effort with the same scale and level of funding as the current large private efforts? What would be the benefits for society? 

 

Talmo:


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Interview with Anindya Bagchi

Anindya Bagchi is an Associate Professor at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an expert in cancer genetics. He is also the founder of several biotech companies.

 

Dear Anindya,

What could be achieved if there was a public or nonprofit AI effort with the same scale and level of funding as the current large private efforts? What would be the benefits for society?

 

Anindya:

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Interview with Chris Wills

Christopher (Chris) Wills is Professor Emeritus of Biology at UCSD. He is the recipient of the 1999 Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology, given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is an evolutionary biologist and his most recent book, on why ecosystems matter, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024 (1).

 

Dear Chris,

What could be achieved if there was a public or nonprofit AI effort with the same scale and level of funding as the current large private efforts? What would be the benefits for society? 

 

Chris:


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