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AI+Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking

April 16, 2024

9:00a.m. PDT

Welcome & Introduction

Speakers

Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor, School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Co-Director, Stanford HAI
International Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI; International Policy Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center
9:10a.m. PDT

Keynote Talk

Speakers

President, Observer Research Foundation
9:50a.m. - 10:50a.m. PDT

Navigating AI Safety: Roles and Responsibilities of Global AI Safety Institutes

Speakers

Director, AI Safety Institute
Director, U.S. AI Safety Institute
Executive Director, Japan AI Safety Institute

Moderators

Society Lead, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM)
10:50a.m. - 11:10a.m. PDT

Break

20-minute break

11:10a.m. - 12:20p.m. PDT

Emerging Economies on the Digital Frontier: BRICS Perspectives

Speakers

Director, Digital Futures Lab
Executive Director, Research ICT Africa
Professor of Law, Brazilian Institute for Development, Education and Research (IDP); Rapporteur, Jurists Commission advising the Brazilian Senate on AI regulation
Deputy Director / Associate Professor, Department of Cyber and Information Law, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Moderators

James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute; Co-Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center
12:20p.m. - 1:20p.m. PDT

Lunch

1-hour lunch

1:20p.m. - 1:50p.m. PDT

Fireside Chat with the U.N. Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology

Speakers

U.N. Secretary- General's Envoy on Technology

Moderators

Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Director, Susan Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy (MIP), Stanford University
1:50p.m. - 3:00p.m. PDT

Realities and Potential on the Africa Continent

Speakers

CEO, Code for Africa
Program Officer – African Union High Level Panel on Emerging Technologies, African Union Development Agency-NEPAD
UP ABSA Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria
Senior Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla

Moderators

Fellow of Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, the Brookings Institution
3:00p.m. - 3:20p.m. PDT

Break

20-min break

3:20p.m. - 4:00p.m. PDT

Fireside Chat on the EU AI Act and the EU AI Office

Speakers

Co-Chair, the U.N. High Level Advisory Board for Artificial Intelligence; Former Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Spain
Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry at DG-CONNECT, the European Commission

Moderators

International Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI; International Policy Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center
4:00p.m. - 5:00p.m. PDT

Multilateral Convergence: International Organizations in Action

Speakers

CEO, Inter-American Development Bank Lab
Senior Fellow of Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Head of AI Unit and OECD.AI, OECD Digital Economy Policy Division - OECD

Moderators

Vice President, Programs, The Asia Foundation
5:00p.m. - 5:10p.m. PDT

Closing Remarks

Speakers

International Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI; International Policy Director, Stanford Cyber Policy Center
5:10p.m. - 6:30p.m. PDT

Reception