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
- White House (NSA, AI & Crypto Czar, Assistant to Pres. For S&T) – Doug Calidas, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)
- Government research institutions (funding) – Stephen Ezell
- Standards and governance (NIST, DOS, etc.) – Vivek Wadhwa, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Engineering at Silicon Valley
- Regulatory and trade (DOS, Treasury, etc.) – Susan Ariel Aaronson, American author, public speaker, and GWU professor
- Department of Defense- Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
- Commerce Department – Anupam Chander, Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
- Intel Community and Cyber Defense – David Mussington, professor of the practice the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and currently serves as the CISA Executive Assistant Director
- Congress/State Department – Cameron Kelly, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institutution
- China players
- Central Military Committee representatives – Rohit Talwar, founder of FastFuture
- Intelligence and cyber – Daniel Richardson, President of Indepth Global AI
- Public/Private Industry – Sarah Myers West, co-director at AI Now
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)/Ministry of Industry and Information technology (MIIT) – David Lin, Senior Director for Future Technology Platforms at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
- European Union
- Governance- Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Institute
- Military/Security – Gordon LaForge, senior policy analyst at New America
- Regulatory – Michelle Nie, EU Tech Policy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute
- Industrial and research policy – David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
- Intelligence Agencies – Rumman Chowdhury, scientist, entrepreneur, and former responsible artificial intelligence lead at Accenture
- Civil Society
- Large players (ChatGPT, META, Amazon, Microsoft) – Cody Buntain, Assistant Professor; Affiliate Fellow, UMD Honors College – Artificial Intelligence Cluster
- Medium players – Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College Of Information Systems And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
- Open-source communities – Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Maryland College Park
- Advocacy Organizations – David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
- Legal Community – Kahaan Mehta, Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
- Universities and academia
- Large universities – Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law
- Smaller schools – Anand Patwardhan, professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
- Medium Universities – Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher at MIT Technology Review
- Government laboratories (Defense, DOE, etc.) – Emily M. Bender, University of Washington Professor
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