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AI+Policy Symposium: A Global Stocktaking

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM PST/PDT
Location
Gates Computer Science Building Room 119 (353 Jane Stanford Way)
Topics
Regulation, Policy, Governance
International Affairs, International Security, International Development
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Speakers
James Landay
Denning Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Marietje Schaake
International Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI
Speaker
Samir Saran
President, Observer Research Foundation
Speakers
Oliver Ilott
Director, U.K. AI Safety Institute
Elizabeth Kelly
Director, U.S. AI Safety Institute
Akiko Murakami
Executive Director, Japan AI Safety Institute
Moderator
Rishi Bommasani
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford HAI
Speakers
Urvashi Aneja
Director, Digital Futures Lab
Alison Gillwald
Executive Director, Research ICT Africa
Laura Schertel Mendes
Professor of Law, Brazilian Institute for Development, Education and Research (IDP); Rapporteur, Jurists Commission advising the Brazilian Senate on AI regulation
Hui Zhou
Deputy Director / Associate Professor, Department of Cyber and Information Law, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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Nathaniel Persily
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute; Professor, by courtesy, Political Science
Speaker
Amandeep Gill
Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, the United Nations
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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
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Justin Arenstein
CEO, Code for Africa
Barbara Glover
Program Officer – African Union High Level Panel on Emerging Techonlogies, African Union Development Agency-NEPAD
Vukosi Marivate
ABSA UP Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria
Kiito Shilongo
Senior Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla
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Chinasa T. Okolo
Fellow of Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, the Brookings Institution
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Carme Artigas
Co-Chair, the U.N. High Level Advisory Board for Artificial Intelligence; Former Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Spain
Lucilla Sioli
Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry at DG-CONNECT, the European Commission
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International Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI
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Irene Arias Hofman
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Elina Noor
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