Intel’s 20-year-old AI ethics prodigy on the future of artificial intelligence [Video]

Ria Cheruvu has been ahead of the curve for most of her life. After graduating from her Arizona high school at just 11, the student deemed prodigy became one of the youngest people to ever graduate from Harvard. Her collegiate record is a marvel to many. 

Following a period studying neurobiology and during the completion of her first computer science degree, Cheruvu was hired for Intel’s ethics team — preceding the AIboom that would soon hit mass markets, and years before the phrase became a household utterance. At the time of her hiring, Cheruvu was just 14 years old. In the years since joining the tech giant and graduating from the Ivy League, she’s become a go-to voice on responsible AI development, bolstering her resume with multiple AI patents, a Master’s Degree in data science from her alma mater after a neuroscience internship at Yale, and multiple teaching credits for digital courses on AI ethics. She’s …