Welcome to a very different episode of Siliconsciousness. Today, we are taking a creative new approach to discussing the future of AI. This episode comprises the first part of our special event, “The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies”. The event, co-hosted by MIT Technology Review, brings together some of the leading voices in AI policy from the public and private sectors to role-play these complex issues. These AI leaders play roles in the US, China, and The EU, and enact policies that best align with their roles interests in the AI space. This first episode contains the first phase of the game, as well as introductions from the editor in chief of MIT Technology Review Mat Honan as well as game controller Ed McGrady. We hope you enjoy.
Our Players:
- US Government Players
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Doug Calidas, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)
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Stephen Ezell, Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
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Vivek Wadhwa, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley
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Susan Ariel Aaronson, American author, public speaker, and GWU professor
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Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
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Anupam Chander, Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
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David Mussington, professor of the practice the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and currently serves as the CISA Executive Assistant Director
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Cameron Kelly, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institutution
- China players
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Rohit Talwar, founder of FastFuture
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Daniel Richardson, President of Indepth Global AI
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Sarah Myers West, co-director at AI Now
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David Lin, Senior Director for Future Technology Platforms at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
- European Union
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Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Institute
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Gordon LaForge, senior policy analyst at New America
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Michelle Nie, EU Tech Policy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute
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David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
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Rumman Chowdhury, scientist, entrepreneur, and former responsible artificial intelligence lead at Accenture
- Civil Society
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Cody Buntain, Assistant Professor; Affiliate Fellow, UMD Honors College – Artificial Intelligence Cluster
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Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College Of Information Systems And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
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Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Maryland College Park
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David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
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Kahaan Mehta, Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
- Universities and academia
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Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law
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Anand Patwardhan, professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
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Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher at MIT Technology Review
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Emily M. Bender, University of Washington Professor
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