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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
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HAI Event Hosts
Dan Ho headshot
Daniel E. Ho
William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law | Professor of Political Science | Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy) | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research | Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab)
Erik Brynjolfsson
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
Keynote Speakers
Eric Lander
President’s Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
Rumman Chowdhury
Director of ML EThics, Transparency, and Accountability, Twitter
Middleware Could Give Consumers Choices Over What They See Online
Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Director, Susan Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy (MIP), Stanford University
Ashish Goel
Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Stanford University
Kate Starbird
Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Katrina Ligett
Professor of Computer Science; Academic Director of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University
Universal Basic Income to Offset Job Losses Due to Automation
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 of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics
Juliana Bidadanure
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at Stanford University
Data Cooperatives Could Give Us More Power Over Our Data
Divya Siddarth
Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project
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
Center Fellow, Stanford HAI; Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science, Professor, Information Technology
Jennifer King
Jennifer King
Privacy and Data Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI
Third-Party Auditor Access for AI Accountability
DJ Patil
Former Chief Data Scientist of the United States; General Partner, GreatPoint Ventures
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
Fiona Scott Morton
Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics, Yale University School of Management
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Celia Clark
celia.clark@stanford.edu
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  • Erik Brynjolfsson
    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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