Vilas Dhar, President of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, is an entrepreneur, technologist, and human rights advocate with a lifelong commitment to creating more robust social institutions that foster shared opportunity. Vilas contends that we’ve arrived at an urgent moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence.

He suggests we now have the opportunity and moral responsibility to build technologies together to solve pressing global challenges.

In this conversation, Vilas asks, “What world could we create if we prioritize using AI that centers humanity?”