Veena Dubal is an unlikely star in the tech world. A scholar of labor practices regarding the taxi and ride-hailing industries and an Associate Professor at San Francisco's U.C. Hastings College of the Law, her work on the ethics of the gig economy has been covered by the New York Times, NBC News, New York Magazine, and other publications. She's been in public dialogue with Naomi Klein and other famous authors, and penned a prominent op-ed on facial recognition tech in San Francisco -- all while winning awards for her contributions to legal scholarship in her area of specialization, labor and employment law. At the annual symposium of the AI Now Institute, an interdisciplinary research center at New York University, Dubal was a featured speaker. The symposium is the largest annual public gathering of the NYU-affiliated research group that examines AI's social implications.

Veena Dubal is an unlikely star in the tech world. A scholar of labor practices regarding the taxi and ride-hailing industries and an Associate Professor at San Francisco's U.C. Hastings College of the Law, her work on the ethics of the gig economy has been covered by the New York Times, NBC News, New York Magazine, and other publications. She's been in public dialogue with Naomi Klein and other famous authors, and penned a prominent op-ed on facial recognition tech in San Francisco -- all while winning awards for her contributions to legal scholarship in her area of specialization, labor and employment law. At the annual symposium of the AI Now Institute, an interdisciplinary research center at New York University, Dubal was a featured speaker. The symposium is the largest annual public gathering of the NYU-affiliated research group that examines AI's social implications.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a trend in security but is becoming an essential tool for keeping up with cyber hackers, Channelnomics heard during BMC Exchange in New York, New York last week. During the event, Jon Fraser, managing director of service management at BMC channel partner Online Business Systems, said for his business, AI will make its biggest splash in the security space. "We're doing a lot of work in understanding how to use AI to protect and heal systems before a breach [in order to] make them stronger - prevent zero day attacks essentially," he told Channelnomics. The executive said the vast majority of today's breaches stem from failure to implement patches that could be over a year old, pointing to the Equifax hack. Not only will the threat of breaches drive demand for AI, according to Fraser, but use of the emerging technology will become a necessity, he said.