Sidecar Sync
Sidecar Sync
Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Scaling AI for Social Good with Wadhwani AI | 101
57 minutes Posted Sep 25, 2025 at 10:00 am.
Introduction to Shekar Sivasubramanian
What Is Wadhwani AI and Its Mission?
Oral Reading Fluency Assistant for Children
What Wadhwani Learned from 5 Million Students
Building Trust with AI When Data Is Limited
Designing AI for Low-Resource Settings
Partnering with Government for AI Deployment
AI That Supports Workers, Not Replaces Them
What’s Next for Wadhwani AI
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Send us Fan Mail In this special interview edition of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias sits down with Shekar Sivasubramanian, Head of the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, to explore how AI can be deployed at scale for social good. Shekar shares powerful stories of AI in action—from an oral reading fluency assistant helping millions of Indian children, to smartphone-powered pest detection for rural farmers. This episode dives into designing for deployment (not just innovation), buil...