Artificial Intelligence

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.

A new actress is putting the film industry on edge, because she’s made by artificial intelligence. HPR’s Cassie Ordonio spoke with advocates in Hawai‘i’s film industry who fear that AI might replace human talent.

A new artificial intelligence model is making waves for its ability to create realistic videos. ʻIolani School emerging technologies educator Gabriel Yanagihara spoke to HPR’s Maddie Bender about Sora 2.

Jason Edward Lewis and Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada founded the Hawaiian and Indigenous Future Imaginaries Lab, or the HIFI Lab, to direct thought and art around emerging technologies.

Gabriel Yanagihara, a computer science teacher at ‘Iolani school, is the man behind the local viral videos. The Conversation spoke with Yanagihara about the unconventional class assignment that led to the videos.

Fernanda Camarena with the Poynter Institute discusses the implications of the Trump administration's restrictions on the media's access to public officials; ‘Iolani School teacher Gabriel Yanagihara uses generative AI to make viral videos of snow on top of Lēʻahi and whales swimming in the Ala Wai Canal

Major defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton has had a presence here on the islands for three decades and leaders say it is the largest provider of artificial intelligence services for the U.S. military. The Conversation talked to Heather Fortuna Bush and Ed Barnabas of Booz Allen Hamilton about the use of AI in the military.