Events
Shaping Viable Futures: Human Agency and Artificial Intelligence
December 18, 2024
From social media to chatbots, today's technologies already test the boundaries of social trust and accountability. New AI products may create new risks while intensifying existing concerns and harms. How can we ensure that increasingly autonomous AI systems, operating with reduced transparency and oversight, don't further erode foundations of trust and accountability? This expert panel brought together leaders from policy, research, industry, and creative sectors to explore crucial questions about AI's impact on society. The discussion examined how the increasing delegation of human activities to automated systems affects social life and how we can use ethics, imagination, and policy to shape better, more viable futures. The panelists included the Honourable Chi Onwurah, MP and Chair of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (UK); Dorothy Chou, Head of the Public Engagement Lab at Google DeepMind; Professor John Tasioulas, Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford; and Dr. Julian Bleecker, founder of the Near Future Laboratory, in conversation with Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson. Read more about the event.
Presented in partnership with The British Academy.
AI in the Open: Responsible Innovation for Access, Accountability, and Discovery
March 14, 2024
This expert panel considered thoughtful policies and approaches to maximize the potential benefits of AI, while protecting the public interest, and explored how to balance the open sharing of AI models, a cornerstone of responsible innovation, with robust protections of privacy concerns and against potential harm and misuse. The panelists included Lance Askildson, Provost of the Chaminade University of Honolulu; Deep Ganguli, research scientist at Anthropic; Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center; Helen Toner, Director of Strategy at the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology; and Gabriel Yanagihara, teacher at the 'Iolani School.
Presented in partnership with the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, a center of the Doris Duke Foundation.
Building the World We Want: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance
September 20, 2023
IAS scholar and writer Alondra Nelson led a discussion on the transnational impacts of artificial intelligence and the need for global collaboration with Karen Kornbluh, Distinguished Fellow for Technology and Competitiveness at the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and former U.S. Ambassador to the OECD; Maria Ressa, CEO and President of Rappler and Nobel laureate; Olatunbosun Tijani, the Honorable Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy for the Republic of Nigeria; and Tim Wu, Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia University, and an introduction from Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg.
Presented in partnership with the New York Public Library.
Steering AI for the Public Good
June 6, 2023
A panel of computer scientists, social scientists, technology developers, and policy advisors from the AI Policy and Governance Working Group discussed how the research community, industry, government, civil society, and the public can work collaboratively on strategies for the development of AI systems that embed a diverse and representative range of humanity’s priorities and advance democratic values. With Miranda Bogen, Brian Christian, Sorelle Friedler and William Isaac, in conversation with Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson, with an introduction from Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg.