I am not active on LinkedIn or other social media. To reach me with specific, high value requests, use hodson@ai4good.org. Service offers should go to info@ai4good.org. Anything else will be ignored.I have the special honour of leading the AI for Good Foundation, and my life is dedicated to designing solutions to the big challenges facing humanity today and in the not-so-distant future. I have a strong academic background as a computer scientist, economist, and Artificial Intelligence researcher, and an equally strong experience with hands-on economic and social policy design and implementation around the world.My work in the past decade has touched the lives of hundreds of millions of people across several continents, working with many different governments, cultures, and social contexts. I am committed to the concepts of community resilience, building the capacity for innovation, and giving people the resources they need to solve the challenges they feel and face. I believe in the power of technology to enable new mechanisms for experimentation and problem-solving, but I do not believe in taking the human out of this process. My full-time work for the AI for Good Foundation is not compensated. I do not receive any payments from the governments with which we work. Our work is independent and aims to align with the needs of the communities that are affected, following a multi-stakeholder, transparent, and inclusive approach. My family and I personally invest alongside our many donors because we believe in the need for additional capacity to build technology and solutions in the public interest.We are at a delicate cross-roads socially and geo-politically. We have an incredible opportunity to create a future that is fair to the vast majority of people in the world whose only dream is to lead happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives without fear of death and persecution for their beliefs, ethnic origins, limitations, or personal preferences. We have the ability to create institutions and governance models that effectively prevent capture of the state and resources by a limited number of people who do not act in our common best interests. We have the potential to tackle these big challenges, but we often fail to understand the big picture and effectively coordinate to make it happen.This is what I work towards every day. If you'd like to help, please support the AI for Good Foundation (https://ai4good.org), help me to spread these ideas to a larger audience, advocate on our behalf, join us.
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