AI for social good at Intel

2 Jan 2026 · 37 min
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2 Jan 2026 · 37 min

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Anna Bethke, head of AI for Social Good at Intel, discusses projects using machine learning to fight poaching, improve wheelchair control, detect abusive speech, and identify child exploitation. TrailGuard AI uses edge detection to reduce false alarms in anti-poaching cameras. Wheelie enables wheelchair control through facial gestures using Intel hardware.

Questions this episode answers

Late January 2019 at the Applied Machine Learning Days conference (Lassonde, Switzerland).

Head of AI for Social Good at Intel.

TrailGuard AI — uses Movidius vision processing unit (VPU) for on-device inference to detect people/vehicles and reduce false alarms.

Wheelie (by Hubox) — uses Intel RealSense 3D camera and Intel NUC for on-device facial-gesture recognition and control.

Hack Harassment — worked with Vox and the Lady Gaga foundation using LSTMs and other NLP architectures.

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