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2021 Fall Conference on Policy & AI: Four Radical Proposals for a Better Society

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Past
Date
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST/PDT
Overview
Speakers
Agenda

November 9, 2021

9:00a.m. - 9:15a.m. PST

Welcome and Introduction

Speakers

Daniel E. Ho

William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow, SIEPR; Associate Director, HAI; Faculty Fellow, CASBS; Faculty Director, Stanford RegLab

Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI); Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab; Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Virtual

9:15a.m. - 9:45a.m. PST

Keynote Talk

Speakers

Eric Lander

President’s Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Virtual

9:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. PST

Middleware Could Give Consumers Choices Over What They See Online

Speakers

Francis Fukuyama

Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, FSI; Mosbacher Director of the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

Ashish Goel

Professor of Management Science and Engineering, and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University

Kate Starbird

Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

Katrina Ligett

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Head of Program on Internet & Society; Member of Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University

Moderators

Renee DiResta

Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford Cyber Policy Center, FSI

Virtual

11:00a.m. - 12:15p.m. PST

Universal Basic Income to Offset Job Losses Due to Automation

Speakers

Andrew Yang

Founder and CEO, Venture for America; Former 2020 Presidential Candidate

Darrick Hamilton

Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy; Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy, The New School Milano

Mark Duggan

Trione Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Moderators

Juliana Bidadanure

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Virtual

12:15p.m. - 12:30p.m. PST

Closing Remarks

Speakers

Daniel E. Ho

Erik Brynjolfsson

Virtual

November 10, 2021

9:00a.m. - 9:10a.m. PST

Welcome and Introduction

Speakers

Daniel E. Ho

Erik Brynjolfsson

Virtual

9:10a.m. - 9:45a.m. PST

Keynote Talk

Speakers

Rumman Chowdhury

Director of META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability), Twitter; Former CEO and Founder, Parity; Former Global Lead of Responsible AI, Accenture Applied Intelligence

Virtual

9:45a.m. - 11:00a.m. PST

Data Cooperatives Could Give Us More Power Over Our Data

Speakers

Divya Siddarth

Associate Political Economist and Social Technologist, Microsoft

Pamela Samuelson

Richard M. Sherman, Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law; Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information; Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Sandy Pentland

Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Professor of Information Technology; Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director, MIT Management Sloan School

Moderators

Jennifer King

Privacy and Data Policy Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Virtual

11:00a.m. - 12:15p.m. PST

Third-Party Auditor Access for AI Accountability

Speakers

Deborah Raji

Fellow, Mozilla Foundation; Fellow, Algorithmic Justice League; PhD Student in Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley

DJ Patil

Head of Technology, Devoted Health; Former Chief Data Scientist, United States Office of Science and Technology Policy

Cathy O’Neil

Founder, Mathbabe.org; New York Times Best Selling Author of Weapons of Math Destruction; Former Director of Lede Program in Data Practices, Columbia University

Moderators

Fiona Scott Morton

Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics, Yale University School of Management

Virtual

12:15p.m. - 12:30p.m. PST

Closing Remarks

Speakers

Daniel E. Ho

Erik Brynjolfsson

Virtual

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    Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Senior Fellow, SIEPR | Professor, by courtesy, of Economics; of Operations, Information & Technology; and of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

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