

Williams added that the company is “lending or enabling about $20 million of capital to underserved communities every month.” Rodney Williams, co-founder of the community finance platform SoLo, short for social loans, “has quickly become the largest consumer finance company ever founded by African Americans,” he said. Three entrepreneurs took the stage to discuss businesses they see as disrupting key industries that many Americans rely on but don’t have equal access to. Stern said she sees AI helping free people from repetitive tasks. Stern and Berend both noted, however, that AI could help reporters. Every job in the knowledge economy will need to confront AI challenges, he said. Such technology, known broadly as generative AI, has exploded in popularity and availability this year.īerend said news organizations are investing in verification teams, but that newsrooms will need their own AI to be able to detect AI-generated media.īerend added that this is not just a challenge for newsrooms.

People can login, maybe pay a few bucks, and create all sorts of media, including copies of people’s voices - complete with a fake video of Stern talking about how she loves sitting in the middle seat at the back of an airplane (she, of course, does not). Stern points to just how accessible they are. Joanna Stern and Chris Berend discuss A.I. Talking on AI, Berend notes the rapid pace of the development of technologies like OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT.
