A Singapore-based dark kitchen is using AI to predict consumer preferences, creating a seamless service aiming to close the loop on food waste. It shows how personalising offerings through technology can cater to people’s changing tastes while also meeting sustainability demands.

Artificial intelligence is already helping make the recruitment process fairer, but now companies are looking for ways they can apply AI to retain and empower their employees on the job. The emerging AI tools offer robotic check-ins and behavioural nudges which could help people who feel disengaged or lack motivation in the workplace.

While parents worry about the disadvantages of their kids getting too much screen time, researchers believe they should be taught what lies behind the black box of AI. Canvas8 spoke to expert Stefania Druga about her work, which involves demystifying machine learning for the next generation.

Newspaper headlines and dystopian films might push the narrative that machines will inevitably turn on their creators, but research suggests that people have similar levels of trust in robots as they do in humans – though they hold humans more accountable for their actions.