AI is Shaping the World, Who will Shape AI?
www.teensinai.com
WHEN: 13-14 October
WHERE: Mastercard, 123 MissionSt, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
Places are limited.
To celebrate International day of a Girl and Ada Lovelace Day, Teens in AI in partnership with Mastercard is running a 2-day Hackathon to inspire girls aged 11-18 into Artificial Intelligence. We are on a mission to encourage young women to pursue computing and technology and promote diversity in this ever growing field.
What is a Hackathon?
A hackathon is an event that gathers people with diverse skills (programming, design, entrepreneurs) to solve a real problem within a limited amount of time. Our teen hacks run on weekends, 9-5 pm.
We first experienced Acorn at the AI Hackathon in June 2017, (via a google search), and joining Acorn has ultimately eliminated our one risk - a huge relief for me. Kiran has been in contact with people from Deep Mind, KCL and Hanson Robotics through Acorn, not to mention getting great exposure to design thinking, Agile, visits to companies across London. Elena is an incredible catalyst for truly excellent experiences and her intentions are genuinely focused for the child's benefit, something that sadly missing from the outcomes of government ideals.
The atmosphere was buzzing, the young people involved were absolutely engaged and took their tasks, and learning the skills needed to achieve them, very seriously. More than that though, the levels of sharing and communication with people who, in many cases, they had just met was incredible. I think it is this that really touched me most, to say nothing of the actual products that the teams came up with, which were also most impressive.
Avi Gillis
Head of Diversity & Inclusion
DCMS
This has been a life changing event! I enjoyed learning about different types of jobs out there, such as a developer or UX designer. I also enjoyed learning about different market research methods and most importantly, my team I were solving a problem with refugees & met with mentors from the UN. I wish school was like a hackathon!
Good Health and Well-Being
The amount of time teenagers and adults are spending online is increasing. More and
more time is being spent watching videos, chatting online, shopping, playing games, and
staying connected with the internet. Whilst many of the experiences people interact with
online are positive, increasingly it is also becoming apparent that there is a fine line
between time spent online, and time well spent. It’s also very difficult to know what the fine
line should be for each person as an individual.
How can we harness AI to help judge if the time spent online is time well spent?
Consider if this will need to look at the actual time spent on websites and apps, but also
how it makes someone feel, if it helps with a goal or target, if it increases their overall
well-being and happiness?
Quality Education
Even the most educated of people often have a gap in their knowledge when it comes to financial education. Yet managing finances, avoiding debt, making savings and understanding interest rates are essential to our economic livelihood.
How might AI be used to help young people understand and learn to manage their finances in a simple and compelling way? How might it influence them to improve their financial health?
Reduced Inequalities
There’s a huge gap between those who can participate in the digital ecosystem, and those who cannot. It’s both a geographic gap between countries and a demographic gap between different groups in the same country. On a global level, the ability to participate in the digital economy is a differentiator between successful and less successful countries. In wealthier countries it’s a differentiator between socio-economic groups: the internet is increasingly essential to access and manage finance, benefits, utilities, and maintain social networks; yet the elderly, poor and marginalised often find themselves excluded.
How can AI be used to improve access to the digital realm? How could it enable those without an existing digital footprint to function online? How could it narrow the gap between wealthy and poor countries?
Sustainable Cities and Communities
As more and more devices exchange data, we have new opportunities to learn about the world around us. We have sensors in cars, in offices and appliances.
Think about the data we have at our disposal and what we could learn from it to improve our cities and communities. Identify a problem and consider how AI could provide a solution.
Acorn Aspirations is a social impact company, which aims to inspire young people aged 11-19 into the world of technology and entrepreneurship.
We are on a mission to bridge the digital skills gap and nurture the next generation of digital talent to fill the jobs required by the tech industry.
Teens In AI exists to increase diversity and
inclusion in artificial intelligence.
We aim to democratise AI and create pipelines
for underrepresented talent through a
combination of expert mentoring, talks,
workshops, hackathons, accelerators, company tours and networking opportunities that give young people aged 12-18 early exposure to AI for social good.
Our vision is for AI to be developed by a diverse group of thinkers and doers advancing AI for humanity’s benefit.
AI researchers are needed in EVERY industry and to give you an example of what they earn, take a look at this piece in New York Times.
"OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016. It paid another leading researcher, Ian Goodfellow, more than $800,000 — even though he was not hired until March of that year. Both were recruited from Google."