Mehran Sahami is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering and Tencent chair of the computer science department at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Prior to this, Sahami was a senior research scientist at Google. Previously, he co-founded the ACM Learning at Scale Conference and the AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Sahami researches computer science education, machine learning, and ethics; has published numerous research papers; and holds over 20 patents on web search, recommendation engines in social networks, and email spam filtering. He is a co-author with Rob Reich and Jeremy Weinstein of the book, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
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In their new book, co-authors and Stanford professors Rob Reich and Mehran Sahami argue that big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental h...
At a moment when decades of academic achievement have been lost, can we amplify the benefits of A.I. equally across society, or will we allow a deeper digital divide to leave...