Tshilidzi Marwala

TWAS Fellow to assume leadership role at United Nations University

Artificial intelligence will be a powerful tool with many benefits – and risks that must be managed, said experts convened by TWAS at Trieste Next.

A TWAS event at Trieste Next will explore benefits and challenges of the revolution driven by big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

An Elsevier-sponsored symposium at the TWAS General Meeting explored big data and machine learning.

Big data has enormous potential to benefit human communities. But two African data experts say that scientists, policymakers and the public must work together to achieve that potential.