 Welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit 2018. I'm delighted to be joining Mr. Wolfram Bergart, Professor of Computer Science and Head of Autonomous Intelligence Systems Lab at the University of Freiberg in Germany. Thank you very much for joining us. You're welcome. So AI for Good, how can AI be used to help deliver the UN sustainable development goals in your field in particular? So I'm in robotics and in robotics there are several applications that we think of that are super relevant for our future society. One is traffic. Can we make traffic more reliable and safer? So this is why we are working on self-driving cars and the aim of developing cars that actually produce fewer accidents than human-driven cars do, so that we can actually save the idea it would be that we save plenty of lives in the future. And then the next one is production. So there's a lot of heavy labor going on and also not so developed countries and you could imagine that parts of that are taken over by robots so that actually people do not have to do that much heavy work anymore. And there are other other aspects like for example health, so where you could actually have robots assisting people in health care but you also could have like simply assistance systems that use your cell phone for example for making diagnosis and providing people to access to doctors, which is also a shortcoming currently in our society. In the media recently we've talked a lot about the various incidents and accidents that some of the autonomous vehicles have been involved with. Do you find that you have to defend your work and the use of AI more than you used to? This is the very same with many technologies that we introduced, so for example if you think about cars by themselves, I mean people found cars super useful and this is why we are accepting to have thousands of death casualties per year. That's for the pure welfare of our society and the same can happen with self-driven cars or it's probably also going to happen. So we will have situations in which maybe AI based cars behave suboptimally at least in the very beginning and our hope is that in the long run we will outperform humans and I mean the question is how to regulate this and in this particular these particular accidents were in fact partly software failures and partly also as it turns out maybe wrong configurations in the software. And with mistakes you learn obviously that's Yeah although obviously we truly would like to avoid these mistakes and these are tragedies and this is not what we are working on. We are actually working on trying to make the world a better place and not harming people. Yeah absolutely of course. Now you come from the world of academia obviously do you find that the AI for good global summit is a good platform to meet people from other sectors maybe the private sector or government? I mean it has several advantages being here. First of all getting into contact with other people and understanding their approaches to relevant problems of our societies which also provides me with additional arguments about AI for good and in addition to maybe also promote the fact that AI also has very very positive aspects and that's what the researchers are working on these days. I mean there's so much potential improving our daily life and also societal problems that we should actually take a different view on to AI and this is interesting because important because in Europe we have the tendency to look a little bit too negative on to AI or at AI. If you think about Japan in Japan a robot is always your friend and like robots are perceived completely different in Europe and I think this comes with the risk of actually losing leadership and technology in the future and if no one wants to have those systems and but other countries will then this is a substantial risk also for Europe. Mr. Bergall thank you very much. You're welcome.