2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit Panel To Explore The Future Of Artificial Intelligence

The Stanford campus has been buzzing this week over the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which kicked off here yesterday. This three-day event unites an estimated 1,500 entrepreneurs, academics and investors from around the world in a series of talks and panels designed to spark new ideas and partnerships. As part of the summit, Stanford and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are presenting a panel discussion tonight to explore the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. Among the featured experts at "The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Societal Benefit" will be bioengineer Russ Altman, MD, PhD, faculty director of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, and Fei-Fei Li, PhD, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab. Earlier this week Altman, who is also a professor of genetics and medicine, provided a sneak peek of some of the things we'll likely hear about tonight: This is a great opportunity for AI to help advance our understanding of health and disease.