Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

With AI and other tech, Anat Caspi focuses on helping people

Anat Caspi directs the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology. She’s shown at the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, at the University of Washington. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)
Anat Caspi directs the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology. She's shown at the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering, at the University of Washington. (Alan Berner / The Seattle Times)

As director of the University of Washington’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, Caspi has spearheaded efforts such as crowdsourcing detailed information on the region's sidewalks to enable people with movement limitations to map out the best routes on a local trip.

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FILE- In this March 21, 2019 photo a robot called “Pepper” is positioned near an entrance to a Microsoft Store location, in Boston. Microsoft, a company that often tries to position itself as an early thinker on ethics and privacy issues, published its principles around developing artificial intelligence, released a short book that discussed the societal implications of the technology and has called for some government regulation of AI technologies. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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In this Feb. 22, 2019, photo, Washington County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jeff Talbot demonstrates how his agency used facial recognition software to help solve a crime at their headquarters in Hillsboro, Ore. The image on the left shows a man whose face was captured on a surveillance camera and investigators used the software to scan their database of past mug shots to match that facial image with an identity. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) RPGF201

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An employee tests and packages the AXON police body cameras at the Taser International Inc. manufacturing facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S., on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Taser International Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 30. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg 551961733

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