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