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Meet the CEOs, founders, and other leaders on the Globe’s annual Tech Power Players list
The annual Tech Power Players list highlights the impact of local leaders on technology and business. They represent sectors including software, AI, robotics, cybersecurity, climate tech, and health tech. (Biotech was excluded.)All candidates were chosen and vetted by Globe business journalists; many were nominated by external sources. We ranked them by their economic impact and influence in the tech community, including their efforts in mentorship and diversity, equity, and inclusion. We prioritized recent achievements. In some cases, we chose to honor more than one person from the same company or institution in one slot (indicated by a darker blue ranking tag). Learn more
Can artificial intelligence cause medical errors? This MIT researcher shows it can.
Could a misspelled word cause a medical crisis? Maybe, if your medical records are being analyzed by an artificial intelligence system. One little typo, or even the use of an unusual word, can cause a medical AI to conclude there’s nothing wrong with somebody who might actually be quite sick. It’s a real danger, now that hospitals worldwide are deploying systems that use AI software like ChatGPT to assist in diagnosing illnesses. The potential benefits are huge; AIs can be excellent at spotting potential health problems that a human physician might miss. But new research from Marzyeh Ghassemi, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and principal investigator at MIT Jameel Clinic, also finds that these AI tools are often remarkably easy to mislead, in ways that could do serious harm. Learn more