Expert Talk by Carlos Gershenson, an Empire Professor of Innovation at the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the New England Complex Systems Institute, a research professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Visiting Professor at MIT, Northeastern University, and ITMO University. He has (co-)written more than 200 scientific publications in books, journals, and conference proceedings, which have been cited more than 9000 times. He has a wide variety of academic interests, including artificial intelligence, complex systems, self-organization, artificial life, and philosophy of science, with applications to healthcare, transportation, governance, education, cybersecurity, and more. He is the serving President of the Complex Systems Society, Editor-in-Chief of Complexity Digest and member of the Board of Advisors for Scientific American.