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How schools can navigate AI (SureStart's Dr. Taniya Mishra) | Pioneers of AI

About Taniya

  • Founder & CEO of SureStart, expanding AI education access for diverse youth
  • 15+ years in AI; led technical roles at AT&T Research, Affectiva, Interactions
  • Holds 80+ AI patents; published numerous peer-reviewed AI articles
  • Named one of NASDAQ's 25 Leading Women in AI (2023)
  • Won WomenTech Global AI Inclusion (2021); VentureBeat Woman in AI (2022)

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If you’re looking for outside-the-box innovation and boundless energy — look to the youth. Dr. Taniya Mishra and her company SureStart are doing just that as they train the next generation of AI innovators with pie-in-the sky ideas that could solve some of our biggest challenges. SureStart operates under the fundamental ethos that to build safer AI tools that can reach everyone, we need diverse technologists to lead us. In this episode of Pioneers of AI, we hear from Dr. Mishra about why diversity in AI matters, the importance of AI literacy, and why ethics and AI go hand-in-hand.

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