Shingai Manjengwa on why we shouldn’t fear AI

This week on WONK, host Edward Greenspon talks to Shingai Manjengwa, a leading AI educator and thinker. 

Manjengwa is the head of AI education at chainML, a research and development firm. She is also the founder of Fireside Analytics, a data science education company, and the former director of professional development at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She’s even written a children’s book to teach data science to kids. She breaks down in simple terms how AI actually works, what kinds of challenges it presents and why we shouldn’t fear the future of AI.

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