Agenda
September 29, 2020
Welcome Remarks Larry Diamond, Global Digital Policy Incubator Glenn Tiffert, Hoover Institution Jenny Wang, Human Rights Foundation
Opening Remarks Condoleezza Rice, Director, Hoover Institution, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Denning Professor in Global Business at the Graduate School of Business
Keynote: Mung Chiang | Advisor on Science and Technology, U.S. State Department
Panel 1: How AI is powering China's Domestic Surveillance State
How is AI exacerbating surveillance risks and enabling digital authoritarianism? This session will examine both state-sponsored applications and Chinese commercial services.
Panelists
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, China Reporter, Axios Glenn Tiffert, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Xiao Qiang, Research Scientist, UC Berkeley & Editor-in-Chief, China Digital Times Moderator: Melissa Chan, Foreign Affairs Reporter, Deutsche Welle Asia
October 1, 2020
Panel 2: The ethics and implications of doing business with China and Chinese companies
What dynamics are at play in China's effort to establish market dominance for Chinese companies, both domestically and globally? What demands are placed on non-Chinese technology companies to participate in the Chinese marketplace? What framework should U.S.-based companies use to evaluate the risks and opportunities for collaboration and market entry in China? To what extent are Chinese companies (e.g..,TikTok) competing in Western markets required to comply with Chinese government instructions or demands for access to data?
Panelists
Mary Hui, Hong Kong-based Technology and Business Reporter, Quartz Megha Rajagopalan, International Correspondent and Former China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News Alex Stamos, Director, Stanford Internet Observatory & Former Chief Security Officer, Facebook Moderator: Casey Newton, Silicon Valley Editor, The Verge
October 6, 2020
Keynote & Conversation: Competing in the Superpower Marathon with China Mike Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit Conversant: Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director of GDPi
Panel 3: China as an Emerging Global AI Superpower
How should we think about China's growing influence in the realm of AI and the attendant geopolitical risks and implications? This session will explore China’s bid through Huawei to build and control the world's 5G networks, and what that implies for human rights and national sovereignty and security; China's export of surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes around the world; China's global partnerships to research and develop AI; and the problem of illicit technology transfer/theft.
Panelists Steven Feldstein, Associate Professor, Boise State University Lindsay Gorman, Fellow for Emerging Technologies, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund Maya Wang, China Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch Moderator: Dominic Ziegler, Senior Asia Correspondent and Banyan Columnist, The Economist
October 9, 2020
Keynote: Audrey Tang, Digital Minister, Taiwan
Panel 4: How Democracies Should Respond to China's Emergence as an AI Superpower
How should the rest of the world, and especially the world's democracies, react to China's bid to harness AI for ill as well as good? How do we strike the right balance between vigilance in defense of human rights and national security and xenophobic overreaction?
Panelists
Christopher Balding, Associate Professor, Fulbright University Vietnam Anja Manuel, Co-Founder, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel Chris Meserole, Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings Institution Moderator: Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Closing Remarks Strengthening American Capability and International Collaboration in AI Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
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