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Marcel Salathé interviews Rachid Guerraoui about the role of distributed systems in AI and the challenges of building trustworthy AI.

In this episode Marcel Salathé speaks with EPFL professor Rachid Guerraoui about the distributed systems that make modern AI possible. They discuss the limits of today’s AI models, the challenge of building trustworthy and robust systems, and the growing importance of privacy and sovereignty in AI deployment. The conversation also explores Guerraoui’s startup, Anyway Systems, which enables organizations to run powerful AI models on their own infrastructure, as well as Europe’s role in the global AI landscape and the future of computer science in the age of AI.

People in this episode

Host: Marcel Salathé

Guest: Rachid Guerraoui

Topics covered

• distributed systems
• AI models
• trustworthy systems
• privacy
• sovereignty
• Europe's role in AI
• future of computer science

Keywords

• distributed systems
• AI
• trustworthy systems
• privacy
• sovereignty
• Anyway Systems
• Europe
• computer science

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Organizations: EPFL, Anyway Systems

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