SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Zachary Amos – “Leveraging AI to Predict and Reduce College Dropout Rates”

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already impacting education in many ways. Some schools are embracing it to serve students better, and many learners use it to help them with research and assignments. One of its more promising uses in this field, though, is reducing dropout rates.

Dropping out of college before finishing a degree may limit students’ opportunities in the future, but it can also be difficult for schools to predict. AI can help all parties involved through several means.

Identifying At-Risk Students

Preventing dropouts starts with recognizing which people are at risk of quitting prematurely. Machine learning is an optimal solution here because it excels at identifying patterns in vast amounts of data. Many factors can lead to dropping out, and each can be difficult to see, but AI can spot these developments before it’s too late.

Studies show early interventions based on warning signs can significantly reduce dropout rates, and AI enables such action. Educators can only intervene when they know it’s necessary to do so, and that level of insight is precisely what AI can provide.

Early examples of this technology have already achieved 96% accuracy in predicting students at risk of dropping out. Combining such predictions with a formal intervention plan could let higher ed facilities ensure more students finish their degrees.

Uncovering Non-Academic Risk Factors

In addition to recognizing known predictors of dropout risks, AI can uncover subtler, non-academic indicators. The causes of dropping out are not always easy to see in classroom performance. For example, over 60% of college students experience at least one mental health issue, which can threaten their education. AI can reveal these relationships.

Over time, AI will be able to highlight which non-tracked factors tend to appear in students with a high risk of dropping out. Once schools understand these non-academic warning signs, they can craft policies and initiatives to address them.
Enabling Personalized Education
AI is also a useful tool for minimizing the risks that lead to quitting school before someone even showcases them. Personalizing educational resources is one of the strongest ways it can do so.

The AI Research Center at Woxsen University in India successfully used chatbots to tailor lessons to individual students. Students utilizing the bot — which offered personalized reminders about classwork — were more likely to receive a B grade or higher. People attending Georgia State University showed similar results when using a chatbot to drive engagement.

Personalized education is effective because people have varying learning styles. AI provides the scale and insight necessary to recognize these differences and adapt resources accordingly, which would be impractical with manual alternatives.

Improving Accessibility

Similarly, AI can drive pupil engagement and prevent stress-related dropout factors by making education more accessible. Many classroom resources and university buildings were not designed with accessibility for all needs in mind. Consequently, they may hinder some students’ success, but AI can address these concerns.

Some AI apps can scan physical texts into digital notes to streamline note-taking for those with impairments limiting their ability to use pens or keyboards. Natural language processing can lead to better text-to-speech algorithms for users with vision impairments. On a larger scale, AI could analyze a campus to highlight areas where some buildings or walkways may need wheelchair ramps or other accessibility improvements.

Responsible AI Usage Can Minimize Dropout Rates

Some applications of AI in education — largely dealing with students’ usage of the technology — have raised concerns. The technology does pose some privacy risks and other ethical considerations, but as these use cases show, its potential for good is also too vast to ignore.

Responsible AI development and use can help universities ensure every student gets the help they need. As a result, dropout rates will fall. Schools will benefit from the higher student success rate, and the student body will benefit by achieving goals that will help them in their future careers.

About the Author:

Zachary Amos is the Features Editor at ReHack, where he writes about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other technology-related topics.

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SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Eleanor Wright, COO at TelWAI – “Fortifying the Future: Ensuring Secure and Reliable AI”

As AI becomes further integrated into various domains, from infrastructure to defence, ensuring its robustness will become a matter of national security. An AI system managing power grids, security apparatus, or financial networks could present a single point of failure if compromised or manipulated. Historical incidents, such as the Stuxnet cyberweapon, illustrate the physical and cyber damage that can be inflicted. When considering AI’s complexity, the potential for a cascade of both physical and digital harm increases dramatically.

As such, we should ask: How do we fortify AI?

AI systems must be designed to withstand attacks. From decentralisation to layering, these systems should be constructed so that control points can seamlessly enter and exit the loop without disabling the broader system. Thus, building redundancy and backup at various control points within the AI systems. For example, suppose a sensor or a group of sensors is deemed to have failed or been corrupted. In that case, the broader system must be capable of automatically readjusting to stop utilising data and intelligence gathered from said sensors.

Another strategy for strengthening AI systems involves simulating data poisoning attacks and training AI systems to detect such threats. By teaching the systems to recognise and respond to attacks or failures, they can automatically reconfigure without the need for human intervention. If an AI can learn to identify tainted data, such as statistical anomalies or inconsistent patterns, it could flag or quarantine suspect inputs. This approach leans heavily on machine learning’s strengths: pattern recognition and adaptability. However, it’s not a failsafe; adversaries could evolve their attacks to more closely mimic legitimate data, so the training would need to be dynamic, constantly updating to match new threat profiles.

Maintaining a human in the loop to enable oversight and override is considered one of the most crucial elements in the rollout of AI in various industries. Allowing humans to oversee AI decision-making and restricting autonomy can prevent potentially harmful actions taken by these systems. Whilst critical in the early stages of AI deployment as capabilities scale and evolve, there may come a point where human oversight inhibits these systems and, in itself, causes more harm than good.

Finally, AI sovereignty may prove to be the most critical element in ensuring companies and governments fully control essential algorithms and hardware powering their operations. Without this control, these systems could be vulnerable to foreign interference, including cyberattacks, espionage, or sabotage. As the use of AI increases, the sovereignty of AI systems and their components will become increasingly important. At its core, AI sovereignty is about control, whether exercised by governments, corporations, or individuals. Through the control of data, infrastructure, and decision-making power, those who build and deploy AI systems and sensors gain control of AI.

Fortification will involve integrating resilience, adaptability, and sovereignty into AI’s DNA, ensuring it is not only intelligent but also resilient and unbreakable. It can provide technological advantages, but it may also expose systems to disruption and vulnerability exploitation. As organisations race to harness AI’s potential, the question looms: Will AI enable organisations to gain a strategic advantage, or will it undermine the very systems it was designed to strengthen?

About the Author:

Holding a BA in Marketing and an MSc in Business Management, Eleanor Wright has over eleven years of experience working in the surveillance sector across multiple business roles.

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SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Zachary Amos – “Is Healthcare AI Prioritizing People or Profit?”

In many sectors, artificial intelligence (AI) is largely a tool for driving efficiency, but in healthcare, it can save lives. However, medical practices are still businesses at the end of the day, so AI’s cost-saving benefits are hard to overlook. While that’s not an issue in and of itself, the push to save money can lead to healthcare organizations prioritizing profit over people.

How Healthcare AI May Put Profit Before People

AI is a powerful financial management tool. It can analyze vast amounts of data to highlight opportunities to increase profits and emphasize areas that may not pay back investment. 

AI insight in healthcare could lead private practices to drive high-value drug or treatment sales instead of focusing on care accessibility. It may also lead to preferential treatment of more profitable patients. Some hospital systems claim they have lost as much as $640 million on Medicare recipients. AI-driven cost analysis may drive hospitals to reduce their investment in these populations because of the lower financial incentive.

AI’s profit-driving capabilities can influence healthcare ethics in subtler ways, too. Staff may over-rely on automation and machine learning because it saves them time. However, AI hallucinations are still possible. Similarly, the underrepresentation of diverse patients in training datasets can lead to biased AI results, which may negatively impact a medical system’s ability to care for historically underserved groups.

Prioritizing convenience and efficiency goals over avoiding these missteps may come at the cost of effective and equitable care. Even if medical profits increase, patient outcomes and healthcare disparities could worsen.

How to Ensure Responsible AI Usage in Healthcare

Despite these risks, AI has many beneficial implications for patients, so the industry cannot ignore it. Healthcare organizations can use these steps to ensure ethical, patient-centric AI usage.

1. Focus on Direct Patient-Impacting AI Applications

First, hospitals must prioritize AI use cases that directly impact patients over those that drive economic or efficiency gains for the organization. Medical imaging and diagnostic tools are among the most crucial. 

AI can identify Alzheimer’s with 99.95% accuracy and achieve similar results with many cancers and other conditions. Investing in these applications rather than in AI-based financial analysis will ensure AI’s benefits go directly to promoting better care standards.

Personalized treatment is another promising area for responsible AI usage. Machine learning models can analyze an individual patient’s medical history and physiology to determine which courses of action will help them most. This application is more ethical than using AI to compare the profitability of different treatment options.

2. Ensure Responsible AI Development

Healthcare organizations must address the bias issue in their AI models. Studies have found that removing specific biased factors from training datasets can maintain model accuracy while reducing the risk of prejudice. Common examples of these factors include names, ethnicities, age and gender-related labels.

Having a diverse team of AI developers who regularly inspect models for signs of bias or hallucinations can help. Relying on synthetic data is also a useful strategy, as this can make up for gaps in historical real-world information that may lead to unreliable or biased results.

3. Train Medical Staff on AI Best Practices

Finally, medical companies should train their staff so they’re familiar with how AI can affect care equality. When users understand how misusing AI or failing to catch errors can harm patients, they’ll be more likely to use it responsibly.

Cybersecurity deserves attention, too. A criminal can hinder reliable AI results by poisoning just 0.01% of its data, which can lead to harmful results if unnoticed. Training employees to follow strict access policies and resist phishing attempts will mitigate some of these concerns.

Healthcare teams should also write formal policies to ensure a human expert always makes the final decision on anything affecting patients. AI can provide insights to inform human choices, but it should never be the ultimate authority, given the risk of bias and the temptation to prioritize profit over equitable care.

Ethical Healthcare AI Is Possible

When organizations use it responsibly, healthcare AI can make the industry a safer, more equitable place. However, failing to account for possible shortcomings and errors will create the opposite effect. Learning about how AI can influence both ethics and profitability is the first step in creating a better future for patients and their care providers.

About the Author:

Zachary Amos is the Features Editor at ReHack, where he writes about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other technology-related topics.

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This is your last chance to nominate! The Global AI Ambassador Program 2025 closes next week—don’t miss the opportunity to recognize AI leaders shaping the future.

In the meantime AI is advancing in research, defense, healthcare, and business—here are this week’s highlights:

AI deciphers genetic mysteries in biomedical research
US Space Force outlines AI-driven space strategies
AI-powered brain implant enables robotic arm control
Self-healing AI systems strengthen cyber defense
…and more!

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The Team of SwissCognitive

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SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Dr. Raul V. Rodriguez, Vice President, Woxsen University and Dr. Hemachandran Kannan,  Director AI Research Centre & Professor – “AI in Cyber Defense: The Rise of Self-Healing Systems for Threat Mitigation”

As cyber threats become more complex, traditional security controls have real challenges to stay in pace. AI-powered self-healing mechanisms are set to revolutionize cybersecurity with real-time threat detection, automated response, and self-healing by itself without human intervention. These machine-learning-based intelligent systems, behavioral analytics, and big data allow detection of vulnerabilities, disconnection from infected devices, and elimination of attacks while they are occurring. The shift to a proactive defense with AI-enabled cybersecurity solutions will reduce time to detect and respond to attacks and strengthen digital resilience. Forcing businesses and organizations to fight to keep pace with the fast-paced cyber threat landscape, self-healing AI systems have become a cornerstone of next-gen cyber defense mechanisms.

Introduction to Self-Healing Systems

Definition and Functionality of Self-Healing Cybersecurity Systems

In self-healing cybersecurity, an AI-based cyber security system determines, cuts off, and heals a cyber attack or security danger inflicted without the intervention or oversight of a human. Such systems utilize an automated recovery process to fix attacked networks with the least disturbance to restore normalcy. Unlike conventional security measures that require human operations, self-healing systems learn from experiences and detect and respond to dangers reactively and very efficiently.

Role of AI and Machine Learning in Detecting, Containing, and Remediating Cyber Threats

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning facilitate the cyber security-based technologies with self-healing abilities. An AI-enabled threat detection will analyze huge data wealth in real-time to spot anomalies, suspicious behaviors, and possible breaches in security. When a threat gets detected, ML algorithms analyze severity levels, triggering automated containment actions such as quarantining infected devices or blocking bad traffic. In AI-supported repair, self-healing measures are taken, where infected systems are automatically cleaned, healed, or rebuilt, hence shortening the time span of human intervention and damage caused by attacks.

How Big Data Analytics and Threat Intelligence Contribute to Self-Healing Capabilities

Processing of large data sets is a large concern for making autonomous cybersecurity systems more efficient by integrating real-time threat intelligence from multiple sources, including network logs, user behavior patterns, and global cyber threat databases. By processing and analyzing that data, self-healing systems may predict threats as they arise and provide proactive defense against cyberattacks. Continuous updates on emerging vectors of attack by threat intelligence feeds will enable AI models to learn and update security protocols on real time. The convergence of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning creates a robust and dynamic security platform, hence amplifying the efficiency of digital resilience.

Key Features of Self-Healing Systems

Self-healing cyber defense systems use artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to isolate and respond to threats as they surface and in real-time. They have the ability to react straight off, identifying and doing away with intruders in less than a millisecond. Autonomous intrusion detection employs machine learning and behavioral analysis to preemptively eradicate the chance of a successful cyber-attack. Self-healing capabilities enable a system to patch vulnerabilities, restore a breached network, and revive the security system without any human aid. These systems learn constantly in real-time and are therefore able to adapt to changing threats and enhance cyber resilience. Self-healing security solutions effectively protect organizations against sophisticated cybercrime and potential business disruption by lessening the load of human intervention and response times.

Advantages Over Traditional Cybersecurity Methods

AI-sustained self-healing systems enable instantaneous threat detection and responses to decrease the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) to orders of magnitude below conventional cybersecurity practices.

Unlike reactive security, these systems pro-actively do live monitoring, predict, and neutralize threats before they can expand. They preclude reliance on human intervention, hence reducing errors and delays.

Self-healing systems learn and adapt to open-ended cyber threats, creating a long-standing extra-zero-day exploit, ransomware, and advanced persistent threat (APT) resilience. Automated threat mitigation and system recovery raise cybersecurity efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness for the modern organization.

Challenges and Limitations

The self-healing cyber security solutions, despite understanding their benefits, pose serious challenges to integration, making it imperative to deploy and support AI-powered security systems with the specialist skills of professionals. The issue of false positives persists as automated responses can ascribe threats to actions that are though correct, putting business continuity in jeopardy. Compliance with international data protection legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), is also a big hurdle for AI-assisted security in order to have strong privacy provisions. Compatibility with current legacy systems can be a roadblock to seamless adoption, forcing organizations to renew their superannuated infrastructure. Ethical issues on AI bias in threat detection should also receive due diligence so that fairness and accuracy in decision-making continue to receive encouragement in the field of cybersecurity.

Real-World Applications of Self-Healing Systems

Financial Institutions

AI-based self-healingcybersecurity enables banks and financial institutions to identify and block fraudulent transactions, breaches, and cyberattacks. With constant surveillance over financial transactions, AI detects anomalies to improve fraud detection and automate security controls, thereby decreasing financial losses and maintaining data integrity in the process.

Healthcare Industry

With the threats posed to patient data by cyber warfare on healthcare networks and hospitals, self-healing systems will be used in protecting patient data. These self-healing systems are built for searching for intrusions, isolating the affected parts of a system, and restored by an automated reset process to guarantee compliance with HIPAA and other healthcare regulations.

Government and Defense

National security agencies count on AI-based cybersecurity systems to protect sensitive data, deter cyber war and protect critical infrastructure. Autonomous self-healing AI systems respond to nation-state-sponsored cyberthreats and are able to react failure-point-to-failure-point around an attack’s continual adaptation while providing real-time protection against potential breaches or intrusions in the space around them.

Future Outlook

With someday ever-weaving variation of possible cyber attacks, therefore enhancing most probably probable requirement of AI self-healing cyber security systems. Futuristic advancements such as blockchain for enforcing secure data inter-exchange, quantum computing for championing encryption strength, and AI deception to falsify some attacker’s cognition. It will allow even the SOCs( Security Operation Centers) and add more autonomy, this much will further curtail human intervention and thus make the security proactive, scalable and able to thwart advanced persistent threats.

Conclusion

AI self-healing systems emerge as the next-generation of cyber defense models which will impersonate the real-time threat detection, execute the automated response, and conduct self-correction without human intervention. By utilizing machine learning, big data analytics, and self-adaptive AI, the accomplishment of these systems will be such that no one could dream of lessenedness of their efficacy in providing security and business continuity. As organizations become increasingly more susceptible to advanced cyber threats, self-healing cybersecurity will be key in future-proofing digital infrastructures and establishing cyber resilience.

References

1. https://www.xenonstack.com/blog/soc-systems-future-of-cybersecurity
2. https://fidelissecurity.com/threatgeek/threat-detection-response/future-of-cyber-defense/
3. https://smartdev.com/strategic-cyber-defense-leveraging-ai-to-anticipate-and-neutralize-modern-threats/

About the Authors:

Dr. Raul Villamarin Rodriguez is the Vice President of Woxsen University. He is an Adjunct Professor at Universidad del Externado, Colombia, a member of the International Advisory Board at IBS Ranepa, Russian Federation, and a member of the IAB, University of Pécs Faculty of Business and Economics. He is also a member of the Advisory Board at PUCPR, Brazil, Johannesburg Business School, SA, and Milpark Business School, South Africa, along with PetThinQ Inc, Upmore Global and SpaceBasic, Inc. His specific areas of expertise and interest are Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotic Process Automation, Multi-agent Systems, Knowledge Engineering, and Quantum Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Hemachandran Kannan is the Director of AI Research Centre and Professor at Woxsen University. He has been a passionate teacher with 15 years of teaching experience and 5 years of research experience. A strong educational professional with a scientific bent of mind, highly skilled in AI & Business Analytics. He served as an effective resource person at various national and international scientific conferences and also gave lectures on topics related to Artificial Intelligence. He has rich working experience in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Building Video recommendation systems, Building Chatbots for HR policies and Education Sector, Automatic Interview processes, and Autonomous Robots.

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SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Eleanor Wright, COO at TelWAI – “A New Era of Intelligent Robots”

Imagine a world where humanoid robots cook for you, care for your loved ones, and streamline your workday – all powered by AI smarter than ever before. The global AI in robotics market, projected to surpass $124 Billion by 2030, is set to make this vision a reality. As the capabilities of AI evolve, these machines will become our companions, caregivers, and coworkers, they’ll make mobility more affordable, transform access to services, and redefine the value of human effort.

From Amazon’s fleet of 750,000 warehouse robots to Tesla’s ambitions to build 10,000 humanoid Optimus robots this year, the age of robots is upon us. Dependent on sensors and actuation systems to navigate and interact with the physical environment, this new age of robotics hinges on the developments of AI, designed to mimic and learn from its biological makers. Equipping these robots with intelligence, engineers working across various domains of expertise, utilise AI to enable vision, natural language processing, sound processing, pressure sensing, and more.

Beyond sensing, AI also enables robots to reason, adapt, and learn, using approaches including—but not limited to—reinforcement learning, neural networks, and Bayesian networks. These models and methods enable robots to assess risks and determine actions, and by learning from experience, robots can adapt to new tasks and environments. Thus, AI enables robots to perceive, act, learn, and adapt, allowing them to perform tasks with greater autonomy and precision.

However, integrating AI into robotics isn’t seamless, it comes with hurdles. Robots struggle with real-time processing delays, adapting to messy unpredictable environments, squeezing efficiency from limited hardware, and understanding human quirks like vague commands or gestures. These challenges constrain capabilities and the pace at which robots enter and dominate markets.

So, how can these challenges be addressed?

Some developments in addressing these challenges include:

1. Parallel computing

Parallel computing involves dividing larger tasks into smaller, independent tasks that can be processed simultaneously rather than sequentially. This enables increased computational efficiency, reduced latency, and improved cost efficiency. In robotics, parallel computing allows robots to process inputs from LIDAR, radar, and cameras simultaneously, enabling them to navigate environments more effectively and efficiently.

2. Transfer learning

Transfer learning leverages pre-trained models to solve new, but similar, problems. In this approach, a model trained on one task or dataset is reused and fine-tuned for a related task. For example, in machine vision for defect detection in manufacturing, fine-tuning a pre-trained model on a smaller dataset of images allows it to quickly adapt to detect specific defects, such as cracks or dents, without needing to train a model from scratch.

3. Self-calibrating AI

Self-calibrating refers to AI systems that autonomously adjust their parameters, models, or processes to maintain optimal performance without manual intervention. In robotics, self-calibrating AI enables robots to adapt to changes in their environment, hardware, or tasks, ensuring they operate with optimized accuracy and efficiency over time.

4. Federated learning

Federated learning is a technique that enables AI systems to learn from distributed data sources whilst ensuring privacy and security. It allows AI to collaboratively train a shared model without transferring sensitive data, preserving privacy and reducing reliance on centralised storage. For example, delivery robots use federated learning to optimise pathfinding without sending raw data, such as sensor inputs or location, to a central server. Instead, they locally update their models and share improvements, preserving both privacy and security.

These developments indicate a key focus on efficiency, adaptability, and learning – all of which are essential for the continued evolution of robotics in complex, real-world environments. Additionally, these advancements contribute to a future where robots collaborate with humans, leveraging their ability to learn from experience and improve over time.

So, what’s next for AI in Robotics?

Just as AI agents are taking over the digital realm, they are about to flood robotics too. AI agents embedded in robotics will supercharge the autonomy and flexibility of robots, enabling them to communicate with humans and even interpret intentions by analysing gestures and potentially emotional cues. Crucial to human-robot interactions, AI agents may prove highly effective in assisted care, hospitality, and other service industries.

Additionally, as technologies like federated learning and edge computing evolve, robots will share knowledge without compromising privacy or relying on centralised data. This will improve scalability and efficiency by reducing the need for costly centralised storage and processing, and enable additional robots to integrate rapidly into existing networks.

So, where does this leave us?

Although there are abundant market opportunities for AI in robotics, the pace at which different markets adopt robotics will vary; with AI being a key factor driving this adoption. Crucial for overcoming challenges related to autonomy, adaptability, and decision-making, AI will empower robots to perform tasks once considered too complex or risky for automation. As AI continues to evolve, it will not only raise important concerns about safety, ethics, and integration but help address them; ensuring robots can work seamlessly alongside humans and contribute to a more productive future.

About the Author:

Holding a BA in Marketing and an MSc in Business Management, Eleanor Wright has over eleven years of experience working in the surveillance sector across multiple business roles.

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SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Zachary Amos – “How AI Transforms EV Charging Networks”

People who drive gas-powered vehicles can lug a fuel can around if they ever run out while driving. For electric vehicle (EV) owners, it isn’t as easy. Many fear being stranded on the side of the road, which is why charging infrastructure is so important. However, chargers are often unreliable or outright out of order. Is artificial intelligence the solution?

Why EV Charging Networks Need an Overhaul

The current state of EV charging networks is less than ideal. Harvard Business School research revealed that charging stations are largely unreliable — and drivers are aware and dissatisfied. They can only successfully recharge using nonresidential stations an estimated 78% of the time, meaning one in five chargers in the United States don’t work. This makes them less reliable than the average gas pump.

Omar Asensio — the Harvard Business School fellow who led the study — said the main reason for this substandard reliability is that no one’s maintaining the stations. While these complex machines require extensive maintenance to keep the circuitry in peak shape, they are often neglected.

When electrical systems break down, equipment damage is not the only outcome. Potentially dangerous situations will occur unless companies perform electrical system maintenance regularly. Loose connections and fried circuits can ignite materials or shock users, causing injuries or death.

While the seemingly obvious solution is for drivers to recharge at home, people use home chargers just 10% of the time, according to one software company. Although modern batteries can reach hundreds of miles on a single charge, many people fear theirs will run out of power before they reach their destination, leaving them stranded. Besides, installation can be expensive, depending on their location and the type of at-home station they choose.

Companies Could Change EV Charging With AI

AI could help companies resolve the sector’s current charging challenges. For starters, it could autonomously manage loads, distributing power efficiently and safely among multiple stations. Reducing grid load — especially during peak hours — helps prevent EV charging equipment from damaging transmission lines, circuit breakers or transformers.

A study from the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute proves this point. It states that large-scale, unmanaged EV charging could cause sudden current draw fluctuations, damaging the electrical grid. This inconsistency can lead to inefficient energy consumption, resulting in transformer strain. An outage is the likely outcome of accelerated equipment wear and energy waste.

Much of the U.S. power grid is already on its last legs. For instance, around 70% of the transmission lines are nearly three decades old, nearing their expected life span of 50 to 80 years. Minimizing strain with AI-powered smart load management can prevent outages while ensuring every battery is fully recharged.

A more comprehensive solution leverages predictive maintenance. Machine learning models can anticipate possible outcomes. They can use embedded, internet-enabled sensors to identify faults like a fried circuit or frayed wire. Maintenance teams would get real-time alerts, minimizing unplanned downtime.

AI could even improve battery health monitoring, maximizing charging efficiency. A research team from the United Kingdom’s Cambridge and Newcastle Universities discovered a machine learning method is 10 times more accurate than the current industry standard technique. It measures electrical pulses instead of tracking current and voltage during charge and discharge cycles. Improving EV battery reliability could transform the charging network’s layout.

Where would companies place new stations? With AI, they could analyze metrics like EV demand, travel frequency and location to determine where to build them. They could also optimize charging network design by plugging their budget, desired density and grid capacity into the algorithm.

Improving EV Charging Infrastructure With AI

Access to a reliable charging network is tightly intertwined with people’s opinions of EVs themselves — meaning companies can only make this mode of transportation more popular if they improve the reliability of the underlying infrastructure. AI is one of the few technologies that could help them fast-track this achievement.

About the Author:

Zachary Amos is the Features Editor at ReHack, where he writes about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other technology-related topics.

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SwissCognitive Guest Blogger: Samir Anil Jumade – “The Relentless Tide of Technological Disruption: Are You Ready?”

The world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by rapid technological advancements. Many industries that once seemed invincible have either vanished or are on the verge of collapse due to their failure to adapt. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, blockchain, and digital platforms is fundamentally reshaping how businesses operate.

In this article, we explore how past giants like Kodak and Nokia disappeared, how today’s industries are facing a similar existential crisis, and how individuals and businesses must prepare for this inevitable transformation.

The Rise and Fall of Industry Giants

Remember Kodak? In 1997, they employed 160,000 people and dominated the photography market, with their cameras capturing 85% of the world’s images. Fast forward a few years, and the rise of mobile phone cameras decimated Kodak, leading to bankruptcy and the loss of all those jobs. Kodak’s story isn’t unique. A host of once-dominant companies, like HMT, Bajaj, Dyanora, Murphy, Nokia, Rajdoot, and Ambassador, failed to adapt and were swept aside by the relentless tide of technological change. These weren’t inferior products; they simply couldn’t evolve with the times.

This isn’t just a nostalgic look back. It’s a stark warning. The world is changing faster than ever, and we’re on the cusp of another massive transformation – the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Think about how much has changed in the last decade. Now imagine the next ten years. Experts predict that 70-90% of today’s jobs will be obsolete within that time frame. Are we prepared?

Look at some of today’s giants. Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no cars. Airbnb, the biggest hotel chain, owns no hotels. These companies, built on software and connectivity, are disrupting traditional industries and redefining how we live and work. This disruption is happening across all sectors.

Consider the legal profession. AI-powered legal software like IBM Watson can analyze cases and provide advice far more efficiently than human lawyers. Similarly, in healthcare, diagnostic tools can detect diseases like cancer with greater accuracy than human doctors. These advancements, while offering immense potential benefits, also threaten to displace a significant portion of the workforce.

The automotive industry is another prime example. Self-driving cars are no longer science fiction; they’re a rapidly approaching reality. Imagine a world where 90% of today’s cars are gone, replaced by autonomous electric or hybrid vehicles. Roads would be less congested, accidents drastically reduced, and the need for parking and traffic enforcement would dwindle. But what happens to the millions of people whose livelihoods depend on driving, car insurance, or related industries?

Even the way we handle money is transforming. Cash is becoming a relic of the past, replaced by “plastic money” and, increasingly, mobile wallets like Paytm. This shift towards digital transactions offers convenience and efficiency, but also raises questions about security, privacy, and the future of traditional banking.

From STD Booths to Smartphones: A Revolution in Communication

Think back to the time when STD booths lined our streets. These public call offices were once essential for long-distance communication. But the advent of mobile phones sparked a revolution that swept STD booths into obsolescence. Those who adapted transformed into mobile recharge shops, only to be disrupted again by the rise of online mobile recharging. Today, mobile phone sales are increasingly happening directly through e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Flipkart, further highlighting the rapid pace of change.

The Evolving Definition of Money

The concept of money itself is undergoing a radical transformation. We’ve moved from cash to credit cards, and now mobile wallets are gaining traction. This shift offers convenience and efficiency, but it also has broader implications. As we move towards a cashless society, we need to consider the potential impact on financial inclusion, security, and privacy.

The Message is Clear: Adapt or Be Left Behind

The message is clear: adaptation is no longer a choice; it’s a necessity. We must embrace lifelong learning and upskilling to navigate this rapidly changing landscape. We need to foster creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills – qualities that are difficult for machines to replicate. The future belongs to those who can innovate, adapt, and thrive in a world increasingly shaped by technology. The question is: will you be ready?

Additional Points to Consider:

· The environmental impact of technological advancements, both positive and negative.

· The ethical considerations surrounding AI and automation.

· The role of government and education in preparing the workforce for the future.

· The potential for new industries and job roles to emerge. By staying informed and proactive, we can harness the power of technology to create a better future for all.

References:

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About the Author:

Samir Jumade is a passionate and experienced Blockchain Engineer with over three years of expertise in Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems. As a Senior Blockchain Engineer at Woxsen University, he has led innovative projects, including the Woxsen Stock Exchange and Chain Reviews, leveraging smart contracts, full nodes, and decentralized applications. With a strong background in Solidity, Web3.js, and backend technologies, Samir specializes in optimizing transaction processing, multisig wallets, and blockchain architecture.

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Industry 4.0 and 5.0 is using robotics to bring supply chains into the future. The last decade has been fraught with challenges, including delays, worker shortages and market volatility. Mitigating costs and enhancing the workforce are the goals of swarm robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is making them even more competent. See how these workers make supply chains resilient and competitive.

What Are Swarm Robotics?

Swarm robotics is a field focusing on large quantities of simple yet practical robots. These robots work best in groups to achieve straightforward tasks, making them optimal for reducing labor burdens. They also shine in industries like supply chains, where repetitive tasks take up a major portion of the working day.

Supply chains need to use swarm robotics because they are easy to manage simultaneously. They are autonomous, respond to environmental stimuli and are easy to reprogram to new tasks. The collective efforts of these machines can make decisions on the fly, covering ground from last-mile delivery to utilizing resources in a smarter way.

How Do Supply Chains Use Swarm Robotics?

These robots enhance operations while allowing supply chains to overcome common pain points. Each application for swarm robots is also made better by AI. What does this look like?

Dynamic Operations

Because swarm robots take tedious tasks away from workers, they allow people to focus on more high-level processes. In the meantime, the bots can tally inventory, navigating complex warehouses in large numbers. They are immediately deployable to do automatic updates, sending instant notifications to procurement, fulfillment and distribution teams.

Swarm robots are also ideal in changing, unstructured environments. With AI and sensor technology, they can map areas no matter how complicated they are. As they learn to navigate, they become more proficient when interacting with similar environments because of machine learning algorithms. This informs routing and navigation and allows perpetual scaling potential.

Cost Reduction

Delegating tasks to robots saves supply chains tons of money. Human error costs corporations between $50-$300 for every mistake. The increased accuracy is only one aspect of the financial savings. The robots save businesses time and money in talent acquisition processes, which take efforts away from fulfilling client needs.

However, the most prominent financial gain may be from warehouse savings. Refined inventory management prevents objects from taking up square footage and energy as they collect dust. Instead, there is detailed metadata on each item, their expiration date, market values and more, which swarm robots can collect with AI.

Productivity Gains

ot only do AI-powered swarm robots save money, they make everything more efficient. Preventing errors, defects and more can shorten lead times from suppliers. In one study, several industries experienced shortened fulfillment lead times by an average of 6.7 days.

They can also allow parallel task execution. While some robots pick up objects, others can transport them and even more can pack them. This yields numerous time savings across lengthy processes with multiple intermediaries.

There are also other productivity gains because swarm robots make supply chain environments safer for workers. They can constantly monitor unsafe conditions in real time, saving employees the trouble of entering dangerous circumstances. This means fewer workers experience injuries and incidents, allowing them to work with higher morale in safer conditions.

Preparing the Swarm

Much like swarms of ants group together to achieve a common goal, these types of robots optimize supply chains. Combining them with AI makes them even more powerful. As they advance, swarm robotics consistently prove they are a must-have fixture for supply chain management in the future.

About the Author:

Zachary Amos is the Features Editor at ReHack, where he writes about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other technology-related topics.

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With AI at the center of investments, business, research, and security, here’s a look at the latest developments:

DeepSeek disrupts AI pricing, shifting investment trends
First EU AI Act deadline pushes enterprises to simplify compliance
Teaching robots to perceive the world like humans
AI-generated photography sparks debate at Photo Brussels 2025
Microsoft & Meta earnings reveal key AI industry trends
…and more!

That’s it for this week – see you next Sunday with more AI breakthroughs!

Kind regards,

The Team of SwissCognitive

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