The panel will bring together global thought leaders to discuss grand challenges of artificial intelligence. Panelists will provide unique historical perspectives, discuss challenges and progress in the field. The interactive conversation will be led by Ganesh Mani, Adjunct Faculty, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (who will be teaching a related course in the Fall for the Qatar and Africa campuses).

Panelists:

Mercy N. Asiedu, Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gianni Di Caro, Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Patrick McSharry, Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Africa

Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow, AI Ethics Global Leader, AAAI President-Elect

Dag Spicer, Senior Curator, Computer History Museum

Beverly Woolf, Research Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.