Iyad Rahwan

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he founded the Center for Humans & Machines. 

RADAR THINKER

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020.

FAST FACT

Led the winning team in the US State Department’s Tag Challenge, using social media to locate individuals in remote cities within 12 hours using only their mug shots.

FAST FACT

Led a team that crowdsourced 40 million decisions from people worldwide about the ethics of autonomous vehicles.

Ideas

Rahwan’s work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, with a focus on collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and the social aspects of AI.

Bio

Rahwan is a native of Aleppo, Syria. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and is an affiliate faculty at the MIT Institute of Data, Systems and Society (IDSS).

Content

He led the winning team in the US State Department’s Tag Challenge, using social media to locate individuals in remote cities within 12 hours using only their mug shots. Recently, he crowdsourced 40 million decisions from people worldwide about the ethics of AI systems. 

NATIONALITY: Syrian-Australian

Media picks

Verdict

“Important voice on the ethics of AI.”

Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

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