New York University’s Information Law Institute and the White House will co-host a major public symposium on Thursday, July 7 to address the near-term impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across our social and economic systems.
New York University’s Information Law Institute and the White House will co-host a major public symposium on Thursday, July 7 to address the near-term impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across our social and economic systems.
AI Now: The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term will focus on the challenges of the next five to 10 years, specifically addressing four themes: how AI will impact social inequality, labor, healthcare, and ethics. Leaders from industry, academia, and civil society will share ideas for technical design, research, and policy directions. The aim is to amplify the voices of those with significant insight and experience across the four areas, with the goal of building new bridges across different communities.
AI Now runs from 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY).
Speakers include:
• Roy L. Austin, Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity, White House Domestic Policy Council
• Genevieve Bell, Senior Fellow and Vice President at the corporate strategy office of Intel Corp.
• R. David Edelman, Special Assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy, White House National Economic Council
• Edward Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Jason Furman, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors
• Alicia Glen, Deputy Mayor, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development, New York City
• Yann LeCun, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research, Facebook
• Alondra Nelson, Dean of social science at Columbia University, working at the intersection of science, medicine, and social inequality
• Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder and Head of Applied AI at Google DeepMind
• Latanya Sweeney, Professor of government and technology, Harvard
• Nicole Wong, former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, focusing on Internet, privacy and innovation policy
The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration and a schedule of events are available at www.artificialintelligencenow.com. The conference will be live-streamed on the same site. The event hashtag will be #FutureofAI.
AI Now is one of four public workshops the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is co-hosting on artificial intelligence. Previous events took place at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has a Request for Information soliciting public input through July 22 on the subject of AI.
New York University thanks Google Open Research, Microsoft Research and the MacArthur Foundation for their support of this workshop.