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COVID-19 and Crisis Innovation: Sharing our data to save the world

Published: June 8, 2020, 2:47 p.m.

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This week, we\\u2019re back with the Safe Paths team as Jeff sits down with its founder, MIT Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar. Jeff and Ramesh explore the inspiration for Safe Paths and Ramesh\\u2019s vision for establishing Path Check, a nonprofit committed to developing leading technology to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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Ramesh\\u2019s inspiration for the Safe Paths technology stems from his experience at Burning Man in 2017, where he was asked to be on the receiving end of a phone booth experience called \\u201cTalk to God.\\u201d As dozens of strangers shared intimate personal details with Ramesh, he realized that it wasn\\u2019t God they were looking for, but instead an impartial broker to receive their most personal information - free of judgment and repercussion. What if technology - and AI in particular - could be that impartial broker?

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Join this free-flowing conversation exploring, among other topics, the dichotomy between data privacy and its utility, through the lens of Safe Paths\\u2019 revolutionary platform.

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