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• AI proven to save lives by determining risk of death ITN Business

  "It's very rare for any medication to [produce] a 31% reduction in mortality, and then even more rare for a non-drug." – Eric Topol, professor at Scripps Research Translational Institute

• Nothing artificial about 'Super Intelligence' CNBC

  "The use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake... It is not fake. It's actually amazing." – President Donald Trump, quoted by Leonie Kidd

• AI for Good: Microsoft's Vision for a Brighter Future Microsoft

  "At Microsoft we are optimistic about the promise of technology to help solve some of the society's most challenging problems. The AI for Good Lab... partners with hundreds of organizations around the world to drive change through technology... across sustainability, humanitarian action and health." – Microsoft

• How AI Can Detect Health Risks — Just From the Way You Sleep DW

  "A new artificial intelligence model in the United States, SleepFM, has found that patterns in human slumber can be used to predict a person's risk for about 130 diseases, including dementia and certain cancers." – Alexander Freund

• AI Is Reshaping Accounting Jobs by Doing the "Boring" Stuff Stanford Graduate School of Business

  "An analysis... shows that AI is taking over repetitive tasks, like transaction classification, allowing accountants to shift their attention to higher-value work." – Seb Murray

• The Godfather Of AI Was Wrong There's An AI For That

  "Every claim in this video is pulled from published research and primary data: the US Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the US Geological Survey, the International Energy Agency, MIT, Yale, the University of Chicago, the World Economic Forum, and the journal Nature. Some of these myths contain a real kernel of truth, and we show you that too. But by the end, you'll see exactly how wide the gap is between what people believe about AI and what the numbers show, and why the scary version always spreads faster than the correction." – There's An AI For That

• What Happens When Your Co-founder Isn't Human? Blockleaders

  "[Bruckmann] speaks to AI with courtesy because he believes relationships matter, regardless of whether the other participant is human. He imagines a social network where humans and machines occupy the same digital space. He sees today's language models not as the end of AI but as the beginning of a much longer story." – Jillian Godsil

• TUM: Autonomous underwater robot system to combat waste problem in ports heise online

  "As part of the EU project "Seaclear," a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed an autonomous underwater robot system that combines specialized robots, a drone, and a service boat to detect trash above and below the water and collect it using robots." – Oliver Bünte

• Meet the Robots Who Are Making the World a Better Place UN News

  "Robots like Grace can support people's health and well-being, provide high-quality educational services, reduce inequalities by helping persons with disabilities, reduce waste, help build resilient infrastructure, and broadly enhance social good, according to the UN telecommunications agency." – U.N. News

• How AI Is Shortening Drug Discovery Timelines in China AI News

  "Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov." – Muhammad Zulhusni

• Could AI Help Save the Planet? Four Ways It's Making a World of Difference Positive.News

  "...Google used the AI expertise of its newly acquired DeepMind to analyse the electricity used for cooling its data centres, they discovered they could cut it by a staggering 40% – and this was after they thought they'd already made them as efficient as possible." – Martin Wright

• Co-existing with AI: why replacement narratives are holding the public sector back TechRadar

  "...fears about replacement can shape how new technologies are received long before people experience their benefits." – Juliet Gurney

• More than 1,300 experts call AI a force for good BBC

  "Frankly, this notion that AI is an existential threat to humanity is too far-fetched. We're just not in any kind of a position where that's even feasible." – Chris Vallance

• A New Experiential Gallery Just Might Change Your Mind About AI Art Wired

  "I think we are literally in a renaissance," says artist Refik Anadol of this moment in AI art history. "We just don't have a name for it yet."

• "Pro-AI Activists" Are Growing And On A Crusade The Chainsaw

  "The art world has been through a lot of these debates in history. That people are policing what is considered art can be seen as regressive. Does this mean we all have to go back to painting with oil on canvas? So, there's both sides to the argument." – Professor Luke Munn

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