The AI Element

The AI Successes You’re Not Hearing About

Taha Jaffer: The AI Successes You’re Not Hearing About Guest: Taha Jaffer, Head of Wholesale Banking and Global Treasury AI at  Scotiabank   At a moment when most organiz

The 7 Sins of Enterprise AI Strategies

This is a special, short episode with a summary of lessons complementing our full-length interview with Element AI’s CTO Jeremy Barnes on “The 4 Personas of AI Adoption”.

Jeremy Barnes: The 4 Personas of AI Adoption

If you’re tight on time, there is a short complimentary episode with our guest where he summarizes the key takeaways in “The Seven Sins of Enterprise AI Strategies”. Whil

AI-Powered Search for COVID-19 Body of Knowledge

This special episode was recorded on Monday, March 30th for the beta release of  the COVID-19 research platform that leverages technology from the Element AI Knowledge Sc

Global Competition Policy and Japan’s Society 5.0

S2E7: Global Competition Policy and Japan’s Society 5.0   Guests: Philippe Aghion, Economist and Professor at College de France, The London School of Economics, and Harva

Histories of AI: Ancient Greek Myths and the Last AI Boom

S2E6 - Histories of AI: Ancient Greek Myths and the Last AI Boom In 2020, and for our first episode in the new decade, we thought it would be good to continue to dig deep

Jonnie Penn, AI Historian: What not to optimize?

In this bonus interview, historian, researcher and former TV star Jonnie Penn is joined by our Head of Public Policy and Government Relations Marc-Etienne Ouimette to tal

Bonus Episode - An Interview with Yohsua Bengio

Bonus Episode - An Interview with Yohsua Bengio  Can AI be used to help solve Climate Change? If so, how?  In this bonus interview, world renowned machine learning resear

Sustainability

This week we’re exploring if and how AI can help build a sustainable future. From solving climate change to improving health care, AI is being seen as a technology that c

Making Good Jobs with AI

Will AI take our jobs? AI’s main application is in the workplace and is being applied along all levels of the payscale. Critics are worried that this could lead to job lo

Bonus Episode - An Interview with Neil Lawrence

What is data feudalism? Should machines adapt to us or should we adapt to machines?  How can we reinstate agency and control when it comes to our personal data?  In this

From Data Governance to AI Governance

Guests  Richard Zuroff, Director of AI Advisory and Enablement at Element AI Tanya O'Carroll, Director of Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International Alix Dunn, Founder and Dir

In Data We Trust?

We don’t have enough control over our data—how it is collected, by whom, what it’s used for. We’re used to hitting “accept” to whatever agreement we need to use the onlin

Opening the AI Black Box

“Explainability” is a big buzzword in AI right now. AI decision-making is beginning to change the world, and explainability is about the ability of an AI model to explain

A Future with AI

Many have dystopian projections of what our future with AI will look like, but professionals working in AI see things differently. For some, our future with AI may simply

Cybersecurity and Phishing Attacks

Every touchpoint with a prospect is an opportunity to nurture that relationship, but also a potential entry point for hackers. Given that cybercriminals are more resource

What AI Can’t Do

Societal hype around AI is a byproduct of a few recent scientific breakthroughs — speech recognition, computer vision, natural language processing — in short, a computer’

What’s an AI Strategy?

Successful adopters of AI develop an AI-first strategy supporting all functional areas of the business: marketing, product development, customer support, sales, and beyon

Startups vs. Traditional Industry

As AI seeps into every industry, businesses are being forced to adapt. Old school industries may not be as lean or quick to pivot as startups, but they have access to a m

AI for Good

Charles C Onu is using AI to detect birth asphyxia in babies. His story is inspiring because of its impact on society and the field of healthcare (in 2016, 1,000,000 babi