YASH DUTT
AUSTRALIA, 19
Project: Yuva AI
Basic Human Needs: Education
When Yash was 14-years-old, he built Australia’s largest tech blog for GenZ. The blog revealed the numerous implications Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have on the world, specifically on young people. Education systems failed to keep up and students weren’t learning the necessary skills to succeed in today’s changing world. Yash simultaneously watched Australia’s rate of youth unemployment rise to its highest peak decades, and the world reach 621,000,000+ young people without an education, employment or vocational skills. Yash was determined to put youth at the forefront of the AI revolution, which would concurrently tackle the rising unemployment rate and promote the use of AI for good. In January 2020 Yash launched Yuva AI – a company that trains young people to create and work with AI that can improve the world, and connects them with cutting-edge companies to employ them. Targeting underserved communities, Yuva AI concentrates on upskilling youth who otherwise lack access to digital skills education. In 2020 Yuva AI employed 250+ young people in 6 countries, 50% of which had lost jobs or had reduced work hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 Yash plans to double the amount of work of its graduates from 2,000 to 4,000 hours, target outreach towards high functioning youth on the Autism spectrum and make it accessible for others to build AI for good by generating synthetic datasets. Yash believes AI can have an incredibly positive impact on the future of humanity, but that outcome relies on engaging youth in its creation.