Can AI make government programs actually work for you? (with Promise's Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins)
About Phaedra
- Co-founder & CEO of Promise, bringing AI to public benefits and gov services
- Former CEO of Green For All; led national green-jobs nonprofit
- Former head of revenue & operations at Honor, now largest U.S. home care agency
- Union leader for the South Bay AFL-CIO
- Negotiated Prince's return of his master recordings from Warner
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Pioneers of AI host Rana el Kaliouby speaks with Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins about how her company is making government benefit programs cheaper and faster with AI. Stories of people standing in line for hours to get their drivers license or being wrongfully denied government food assistance are common in America. Few people think, “I can solve this problem.” But Phaedra sees a solution in AI. Promise is a software company designed to help move money in and out of government benefit programs to better serve the people who rely on them – and better serve taxpayers, too.
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