Forbes Insights Futures In Focus is about tomorrow’s world and how visionaries and leaders are thinking about it, helping us design for it, and guiding us towards it so that we can thrive. Nothing is certain about the future except the need to design differently for it than the world we live in today. Host is Michael Gale, best-selling author of The Digital Helix.
The guest for this discussion is a very rare mix as the offspring of an Eritrean revolutionary who received political asylum in the United States, a former appointee inside President Obama’s administration, a self-admitted recovering financial services lawyer and a technologist who is now a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Mixed Reality & Artificial Intelligence engineering group. This experience (it’s way more than a product) is at the forefront of bringing AI and combined digital and physical worlds together.
Nate Yohannes’ discussion with us is not only about HoloLens or the embedded technologies behind AI but, the art of balancing financial returns while addressing the wider social issues of how we drive AI to be unquestionably beneficial to all of mankind.
Basically, how do we democratize AI to the hands of everybody on the planet to empower their potential to achieve more and discover the unknown.