With artificial intelligence slowly taking over our society in the recents years, many brands and companies are now creating new ways to incorporate AI technology. Spotify has now introduced a new AI powered "DJ" that personalizes and curates new music and playlists for users. The greatest component of the new feature has to be the voice, which is powered by Sonantic: an AI voice platform under Spotify. The AI-powered DJ works by analyzing a user's listening habits, such as the artists, songs and genres and knowing what songs they love and hate. Then it will take that information to curate a personalized playlist that fits the user's preferences.

Snigdha Roy is a teen hacker who is convinced that AI can teach us about our humanity. The high school student says with the right dose of curiosity, we can learn about AI systems and use them for social good. Working with notable institutions like the Stanford Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, she built an AI therapist and technology aimed at understanding how the pandemic has changed our emotions. Who runs the largest high school hackathon in the Northeast?! Yeah, that's also Snigdha. Not to mention, she was a selected scholar at Kode With Klossy and is the former CEO of Greening Forward.

Snigdha Roy: I am working to understand human nature via artificial intelligence. I have been working with a Ph.D. candidate from the Stanford …

In today's world, artificial intelligence can be used to create what's called "deep fakes."

The most surprising conspiracy I heard about during quarantine – the false belief that rubbing cow poop on yourself will ward off Covid – got me wondering about what technology is available to better understand misinformation, so I interviewed Ezinne Nwankwo. Nwankwo is a Ph.D. Candidate in computer science at University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working on a project that uses AI to address the spread of online misinformation about Covid-19. We talked to Nwankwo about her work, educational journey, and how she learned more about AI. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.