Vilas Dhar, President of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, is an entrepreneur, technologist, and human rights advocate with a lifelong commitment to creating more robust social institutions that foster shared opportunity. Vilas contends that we’ve arrived at an urgent moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence.

He suggests we now have the opportunity and moral responsibility to build technologies together to solve pressing global challenges.

In this conversation, Vilas asks, “What world could we create if we prioritize using AI that centers humanity?”

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Even if much remains to be done and we are not yet close enough to the goal, one thing is certain: if half of the wealth produced in the world happens to be in the hands of 1% of the world's population, we are way much more than 1% with the ability to leverage new technologies to create a thriving, equitable and sustainable future for the grand interest of all. What world could we create, if we prioritize using AI that center human rights, focusing on SDGs as a priority?