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Peter Speaking at a Conference

Talks on AI and Robotics Impact

Peter is CEO of Avendly. He was faculty at the Brown University School of Engineering. He was also formerly the Associate Director of the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative at Brown University where he worked supporting cross disciplinary research in AI, robotics, and IOT, focusing on impacts on society. He was involved in research projects moral norms in AI, VR teleoperation of robots, natural language processing and computer vision. He was the Co-founder and COO of XactSense, a high growth early stage start up producing next generation ROS based aerial robots for laser scanning the built environment using LIDAR and SLAM. Prior to this he was the founder of AIDG a small and medium enterprise development charity that did business incubation and appropriate technology product design. He has an interesting view of robotics and AI inspired by years of working on design for extreme affordability and in some of the most economically challenged communities in the world. He is represented by the TED Speaker’s Bureau.

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Trusted Venues

Venues Peter Haas has spoken at have included: DHL Robotics Days, The World Bank, TED Global, The Economist, The Ford Foundation, World 50, Better World By Design, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Duke, and others.

Over 2 Million Views:

The TEDxDirigo talk Peter gave on AI trust now has over two million views on youtube and is widely cited in AI circles as capturing some of the reasons to have concern about AI deployments.