 Welcome back to the AI for Good Global Summit here in Geneva, we're of course at the ITU headquarters, and I'm really pleased here now to have someone who's actually the X-Price Foundation, one of the Board of Directors members, and if I get your pronunciation of your name right, it's Anshay Ansari. I hope that was okay. It's great to have you. We've seen some of the exhibitions going on there, some of the ones who are looking for the sponsorship from you down the road. Why are you sponsoring something like this? Well for us AI for Good Summit, it's a very good place to start a conversation around AI and exponential technologies. Artificial intelligence is something that scares most people because of all the science fiction movies that we've seen how the robot turned crazy and ended up doing more damage than good. But there's a lot of great potential for solving problems through using artificial intelligence and we wanted to highlight that but also we're cognizant of all the other issues involved with AI so we wanted to bring stakeholders from different backgrounds, different countries, from academia, from private sector, from NGOs together to sit down and discuss some of these issues and find the best use of AI that will benefit humanity. Of course some of our audience may not know that you're an astronaut yourself, you went up into space on the Russian Space Center and you know what happened when Hal wasn't happy. Yes, exactly. I've watched Star Trek growing up and all the sci-fi movies and that's one of the areas you see a lot of technology sometimes turns for good and sometimes for bad. Being able to go to space has given me this really wonderful perspective of our world and how interconnected we are and how the safety and security and our lives depend on each other and working together as one unit, as the humankind living on this planet and that's why it's important for me to see these types of communication amongst different organizations and globally to be able to use these exponential technologies to do something good to solve our problems because frankly we have big problems and it impacts us all. Since last year, in terms of Enterprise's involvement here what's changed do you think, the atmosphere, what's changed on the whole debate? Well last year was the first time we were doing this so we didn't know if people would come back if this was interesting to them and what we've seen is we have a lot of new players that have come to the table they heard great things about it we are taking it from just a dialogue to action and we're challenging different groups to come up with actual projects that they will deliver on and we're trying to create a community of collaborators that will pick a problem and try to solve it so we've seen a lot of great activities we have team members that are demonstrating some of their work that they've done since last year so it's very exciting to see how it has evolved and hopefully it will continue to evolve. Do you and GOALS on sustainable development really fit with yours? Absolutely, I think the 17 SDGs frame some of our biggest challenges and that's what we're trying to do at XPRIZE to address many of those issues and a lot of our prizes doesn't focus on just one problem but it addresses many of the issues highlighted by the SDGs so definitely I think what we're doing here is focusing on the SDGs with AI makes perfect sense just tell me a little about this new avatar you're rolling out so one of our newest XPRIZES is ANA Avatar XPRIZE and what we envision with this prize is to create collaboration between different types of technologies sensing technologies, robotic technologies and AI together which allows for basically transportation of someone's consciousness as if you're physically in some other location and being able to do tasks that you would do if you were physically over there and this can have many different uses it can allow for us to be able to go to environments that are hazardous for a human being to be there but that you can make a big difference whether it's a radioactive environment or a firefighter trying to go save someone in a burning building or to use it as a teaching tool to be able to allow people who have disabilities to do things that they may not be able to do physically to allow people to go to places where humans can't go easily it can be used in space exploration of course one of my most important passions so it can be used in many different ways but most importantly there are several technological challenges that has to be solved and our prize is tuned to help bring focus to those issues and solve them through this Avatar XPRIZE that sounds fascinating hopefully we'll have you back to tell us more about that next time I hope so Miss Insari from the XPRIZE Foundation thank you very much thank you for having me