Getting the nations of the world to stop bickering and balance our resource usage fairly and with in the capacity of our planet.
"Fairly" according to whom? One of the nations? Some individual? Or do you want the AI to come up with the definition of "fair"? What if some people disagree? What if the majority of people disagree? In any case, this could be achieved with extreme violence. Do you really want "AI" imposing its (or someone's) will on the world?
No offense to the author. But serious question: why whenever articles like this come does everyone say "oh you're not a fraud at all!!". You know what, maybe she is a fraud. If she's being honest in this post she sounds a bit like one. She's crafted the perfect resume to attract attention about AI and it works. But she doesn't really know all that much. Possible that she has severe imposter syndrome and she sounds ab…
Also, there's something I don't get: how does an undergrad ends up teaching a full blown course at Stanford? Especially considering she doesn't seem to be some kind of super genius, only a probably excellent student. I'm not trying to demotivate her, I actually think it's amazing that he/she is doing this, but how did this happen?
Same happened to me on a big European technical University. I pushed for adopting a new course, I was the world expert in it, I thought the class for 10 years until someone in the government pushed for a real professor. Now they have another guy who is much less qualified than me, but I was very happy and successful in the private industry instead.
And in the end I thought in 3 different universities.