Dr. Mark Khater

Or what are you doing to help that?

So in 2019, we were beginning to enter into COVID and I was sat, obviously like most other people, bored at home.

But I was sort of in the AI space looking at how it was starting to gain momentum publicly.

And I engaged with then the head of the, or the, as we call it, the master of Queen's College at the University of Cambridge, who is Mohamed Larian, who's an amazing economist.

And we discussed that, you know, the concept of the AI is about to do something incredible to the world.

Now, what are we going to do in Cambridge to actually start looking at the impact of this and making sure that it's impacting things in a way that is good for humans?

So we started talking about what we called the goodness factor of AI.

And that's when we formed something called the Why Not Institute.

And that's what we have in Queen's College.

We called it the Why Not Institute because it was sort of our way of going at a lot of academics, as you know, go, well, you can't do that.

And the first thing that comes to mind is why not?

So basically, this institute, what it was trying to do and still is trying to do under the wonderful directorship of Lucia Reek, who is the director of the institute,

is to look at how we can use artificial intelligence in a way that is good for human beings.

How can we make better business using AI?

How can we make a better economy using AI?

How can we create better policies using AI?

And universities are incredible incubators for these thought processes because universities,

They can bring in people, just like what we do at the Why Not Institute, who are from multiple disciplines.

So the whole idea is it's a multidisciplinary approach to AI.

It's not just led by the techies.