SXSW 2025

AI x Poverty: Innovating for Opportunity

Description:

Join Rich Buery, CEO of Robin Hood, as he announces and unveils the winners of the Robin Hood AI Poverty Challenge, each receiving a $1,000,000 prize. Sponsored by GitLab Foundation and Bezos Family Foundation, this panel will feature interviews with the three innovators who are leveraging AI to fight poverty. They will discuss their groundbreaking technologies in education, workforce, and financial empowerment, and their impact on creating upward mobility for low-income communities. Discover how AI can address society's pressing challenges. (Winners not yet selected. Panel has four speakers.)


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Other Resources / Information

Link to the challenge website: https://www.aipovertychallenge.org/
Link to podcast interview by Rich Buery: https://www.axios.com/2024/06/06/rich-buery-fighting-poverty-with-ai


Takeaways

  1. Explore how AI can be harnessed to create public good and fight poverty.
  2. Gain insights from leading organizations and innovators in social impact.
  3. Celebrate the announcement of giving away over $3,000,000 to the AI Poverty Challenge winners.

Speakers


Organizer

Chansi Powell, Director, Public Policy and Advocacy, Robin Hood Foundation


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Panel
  • Track: Artificial Intelligence
  • Track 2
  • Level: Intermediate


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