Past Events

The Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) hosting Ensuring America’s Innovation in Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Dr. Fei-Fei Li.

What is the difference between magic and imaginary science in fiction? How can they shed light on the way we understand the real world? Join us as we hear from Ted Chiang, American speculative fiction writer and author of Exhalation and “Story of Your Life,” the short story that was the basis of the 2016 film Arrival. Chiang's work has received four Nebula...

Live Virtual Event Two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we see curves flattening and cities lifting shelter restrictions. By no means is this pandemic over; and yet, policymakers, researchers, medical practitioners, and industry are starting to grapple with how we operate in a post-COVID world. What is the path forward, economically, medically, and...

The workshop convened leading academics, computer vision experts, and representatives from civil society, government, and industry to discuss critical questions and develop a whitepaper that makes recommendations related to assessing the performance of facial recognition technology. Core questions included: What needs to be improved about how we benchmark...