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Rob Reich, Diyi Yang, Surya Ganguli | Prompt Response: Should AI Slow Down?

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Monday, September 21, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Location
Live streamed event from Stanford University
Topics
Workforce, Labor
Regulation, Policy, Governance
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HAI faculty offer independent critique of the AI debates of the moment.

This session takes on the argument running underneath most current AI policy debates: whether the technology poses a genuine risk to humanity, and whether its pace of development can or should slow. Rob Reich (Stanford Political Science, HAI) will bring a political philosopher's account of how societies govern frontier science, and why leaving the critical decisions to researchers who answer to corporate leadership is a pattern with a poor track record. Diyi Yang (Stanford Computer Science, HAI) will bring the view from inside the systems themselves, where her group's research on AI agents in the workplace and on model failures across dialects and cultures documents harms already measurable today. And Surya Ganguli (Stanford Applied Physics, HAI) will bring a technical perspective on how advanced AI systems learn and what their capabilities and limitations reveal about emerging risks. HAI Executive Director Russell Wald will moderate.

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Speakers
Rob Reich
Rob Reich
McGregor-Girand Professor of Social Ethics of Science and Technology | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Professor, by courtesy, of Education and of Philosophy | Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Surya Ganguli headshot
Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science, Stanford University | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
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Russell Wald headshot
Russell Wald
Executive Director at Stanford HAI
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