Global Big Data Conference

One of us (Julie) is an AI researcher and a roboticist at MIT. The other (Neel) is a physician at a major hospital and a public health researcher at Harvard. Our dinnertime conversations tend to focus on the future. Lately, unsurprisingly, they've become hushed and grim. Amid the daily news churn, policy makers seem to be facing an impossible choice between saving lives and saving livelihoods.