A year-long BBC investigation into the brutal smuggling of chimpanzees found that as pets in wealthy homes or as performers in commercial zoos, baby chimps can command a price tag of $12,500, a little under £10,000.
But that might all change because the same software that recognises you in a friend’s social media post is being adapted to tackle the illegal trade in chimpanzees. Enter: Chimpface.
The idea came to conservationist Alexandra Russo when she contacted the non-profit Conservation X Labs and met computer vision expert Dr Colin McCormick.
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“In 2030, the greatest set of questions will involve how perceptions of AI and their application will influence the trajectory of civil rights in the future. Questions about privacy, speech, the right of assembly and technological construction of personhood will all re-emerge in this new AI context, throwing into question our deepest-held beliefs about equality and opportunity for all,” says 
Google is issuing an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address societal challenges. Selected organizations will receive support from Google’s AI experts as well as grant funding from a 25 Million USD pool.
Will you join Google DeepMind, University College London, Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio, Anca Dragan, Meredith Whittaker and others in a pledge against lethal autonomous weapons? 
Another great example of how 
With suicide prevention, every minute of response time matters. That’s why the technology team at the well-known nonprofit Crisis Text Line in New York City analyzed some 65 million text messages to determine what words were most statistically associated with a high risk of suicide. This scale of analysis would clearly be infeasible without some form of automated analysis, and its results surprised the team. 