PA Consulting Vox Pop with Toju Duke, AI Expert

4 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this vox‑pop segment, AI expert Toju Duke explains why he was drawn to artificial intelligence: its capacity to tackle humanity’s biggest problems. He highlights two concrete domains where AI is already making an impact. First, AI tools are being applied in agriculture to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, using data‑driven insights to improve crop yields and resource efficiency. Second, AI is accelerating drug discovery for long‑standing diseases such as cancer, with the promise of future AI‑designed therapeutics that could become effective pills. Duke frames AI as a technology that can augment human lives, emphasizing both current contributions and future potential.

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The potential to solve the world's top problems, and that's one of the things that got me interested in AI in the first place. So one of the ways that AI is actually solving that right now is looking at, you know, solving towards zero hunger. So the UN's SDG goals is towards zero hunger by 2030, and AI is being used a lot in agriculture to help towards that. And that's just one of the potentials for me. And, you know, looking at healthcare as well, there are lots of diseases that have been in existence for so long, for example, For example, cancer. AI is helping to drive drug discovery towards cancer right now, and probably in the future we'll actually be able to have pills maybe to help towards cancer. So it has so much potential to really augment human lives.