Professor Nur Ahmed studies how frontier technologies like AI, geothermal energy, and quantum computing can improve lives. In AI, for example, a remarkably low number of firms have committed publicly to principles of responsibility, and yet their ambitions are to hire engineers who support principled AI. In geothermal, jurisdictions such as the U.S. states may sustain regulatory ambiguity to attract investment by startups in new energy generation technologies, but with an intention to support access to electricity at scale to improve lives. These and other paradoxes lie right at the center of fulfilling the potential of technology to deliver value that elevates us all.

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Release Date: 15/01/2026, 11:50:00