Intel's 20-year-old AI ethics prodigy on the future of artificial intelligence

Ria Cheruvu , 20 , is one of Intel 's AI "evangelists" and a go-to voice on responsible AI development.

She's one of the few young voices with a seat at the table as the world reckons with accelerating change.

Her presence is a rare thing in an industry now steamrolled by capital investors, commercial interests.

There is an increasing need for younger voices and opportunities for younger generations to be able to step up and to start contributing to these technologies.

As an evangelist, someone who's passionate about public speaking just as much as coding, what does that balance look like? There's always bigger projects, and bigger themes — like large language models — but the smaller applications really make a difference, too.

"AI" itself is one of those words.

We need more accessibility, more tutorials, more content, more one -on- one interaction.

There's only so much responsibility that a user can take on. Providers and developers and creators of infrastructure also need to be able to shoulder that responsibility.