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Confronting Our AI Future: Hope, Fear, and the Choices Ahead | Stanford HAI
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Confronting Our AI Future: Hope, Fear, and the Choices Ahead

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Wednesday, October 28, 2026 9:00 AM - 6:45 PM
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David and Joan Traitel Building of Hoover Institution | 435 Lasuen Mall Stanford, CA 94305
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Workforce, Labor
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The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.

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Students and parents ask what skills endure when answers are instant, and how to prepare for a workforce being redrawn in real time. Workers fear displacement, wondering whether AI will elevate their capabilities or render them obsolete. Leaders weigh the pull of efficiency against human value. These fears are valid, but they are not inevitable. The same AI that unsettles work and study also widens what a single person can learn, build, and discover. If we design these tools to enhance human potential and values, we open the door to a renaissance of grassroots innovation, where anyone with an idea can build it.

The defining challenge of our era is to ensure that technological progress does not come at the expense of human dignity. From the classroom to our careers and beyond, this conference confronts today’s anxieties head-on, shifting the narrative from passive adaptation to active authorship. Through the university’s unique commitment to open research and public dialogue, we can dismantle the fears of a closed tech future and unlock a path toward human empowerment. This conference will take up the research, the policies, and the design methods required to put tools in human hands that augment, rather than replace, our purpose, creativity, and independence.

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Fei-Fei Li
Founding Director, Stanford HAI | Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
James Landay
Denning Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University

Keynote Speakers

Jeff Dean
Co-founder and CEO at DiscoveryLoop
Audrey Tang
Cyber Ambassador-at-large - Taiwan
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