Artificial Intelligence

Educational technologist Justin Lai spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the recent incident involving a Hawaiʻi minor receiving inappropriate messages from an AI chatbot.

Hawaiʻi lawmakers are considering legislation that would protect children from artificial intelligence companion chatbots.

Artificial intelligence is impacting more industries including the legal sector. But while firms on the continental U.S. are racing ahead, Hawaiʻi's law firms are taking a cautious approach.

The John A. Burns School of Medicine plans to use the money to develop AI systems to have a humanistic approach when teaching medical students about rural health.

The University of Hawaiʻi has made progress in developing artificial intelligence as an area of study — and an asset to use at the school. This coming year, UH is putting more focus on technology to reach more students in the Islands.

The cameras will record the external view on each drive, and the data will be uploaded through the program’s app and to the department’s data consultant, Blyncsy, where an AI system will analyze areas that need maintenance or repairs.

Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Executive Vice President Joe Kent spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the new AI tool called Open Hearings.

A. Kam Napier, the editor-in-chief of Aloha State Daily, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about an AI transcription gone wrong.

Kim-Anh Nguyen, the CEO of the Blood Bank of Hawaiʻi, shares the urgent need for donors; Joe Kent, Grassroot Institute executive vice president, on creating OpenHearings, an artificial intelligence program that monitors government hearings

Cities and states in the U.S. are turning to AI to improve road safety. Hawaiʻi is distributing 1,000 dashboard cameras to monitor road conditions and reduce traffic fatalities.