Co-chairs

  • Ajay Agrawal

    Ajay Agrawal

    CO-CHAIR

    Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
    ajayagrawal.com

  • Erik Brynjolfsson

    Erik Brynjolfsson

    CO-CHAIR

    Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.
    brynjolfsson.com

  • Anton Korinek

    Anton Korinek

    CO-CHAIR

    Anton Korinek is a professor at the Department of Economics and Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
    korinek.com

Participants

A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z

A-F

  • UC Berkeley | Covariant

    Pieter Abbeel is one of the world's leading researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs in Artificial Intelligence. As Co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research lab, he has made pioneering research and education contributions in deep reinforcement learning, generative AI, deep unsupervised learning, and robotics. As founder of Gradescope, he has brought AI advances into real-world practice for education. As founder of Covariant, he is bringing Robotics Foundation Models into real-world practice for robotic automation of warehouse operations.

  • University of Toronto
    Creative Destruction Lab

    Ajay is an economist and professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He conducts research on the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship. He has published two best-selling books on the economics of artificial intelligence: Prediction Machines (Harvard Business Press, 2018), and Power & Prediction (Harvard Business Press, 2022). He also co-edited two scholarly books: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges (University of Chicago Press, 2024). He has also published over 100 scholarly articles. He is the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab - a not-for-profit with a mission to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts; an academic advisory council member at the Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings in Washington, DC; an advisory board member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Block Center for Technology and Society in Pittsburgh; and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto. He is co-founder of Sanctuary - a company with a mission to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots. Ajay was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022.

  • Metaculus

    Physicist Anthony Aguirre studies the formation, nature, and evolution of the universe, focusing primarily on the model of eternal inflation—the idea that inflation goes on forever in some regions of universe—and what it may mean for the ultimate beginning of the universe and time. He is the co-founder and associate scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute, which supports research on questions at the foundations and new frontiers of physics and cosmology. Anthony is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, an organization aiming to increase the probability that life has a future, and of Metaculus, an effort to optimally aggregate predictions about scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, and other interesting issue.

  • Antrhopic

    Dario Amodei is co-founder and chief executive officer at Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems.

    Previously Dario was vice president of research at OpenAI, during which he set the overall research direction at the organization, led the efforts to build GPT-2 and GPT-3, and led several teams focused on long-term safety research, including how to make AI systems more interpretable and how to embed human preferences and values in future powerful AI systems. Before working at OpenAI, Dario was a senior research scientist at Google, serving as a deep learning researcher on the Google Brain team, working to extend the capabilities of neural networks.

    Dario completed a PhD in physics at Princeton University, where he worked on statistical mechanics models of neural circuits as well as developing novel devices for intracellular and extracellular recording. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he works on applications of mass spectrometry to network models of the cellular proteome as well as to the search for cancer biomarke

  • XPRIZE Foundation

    Dr. Anousheh Ansari is an astronaut, a hi-tech serial entrepreneur, and a global Change Maker. She is currently the CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, the world’s leader in designing and operating large incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari sponsored the $10M Ansari XPRIZE, igniting a new era for commercial spaceflight. She captured international headlines by becoming the first female private space explorer and the first astronaut of Iranian descent. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, aims to share her life story as inspiration for young women around the world.

  • OpenAI

    I work on the Superalignment team at OpenAI, researching safety techniques for future powerful AI systems. I've recently been focused on "weak-to-strong generalization"—how can weak supervisors elicit smarter models' latent knowledge?—as a few other safety initiatives (e.g., Superalignment Fast Grants, OpenAI's Preparedness Framework). Previously, I've done economics research focused on long-run growth (and its relationship with catastrophic risk), and done grantmaking in AI safety and biosecurity.

  • Stanford University

    The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford GSB; affiliated faculty, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. Faculty Director, Golub Capital Social Impact Lab, which partners with social sector organizations to use digital technology for social impact. On leave as Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, USDOJ. Member, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Received John Bates Clark Medal for the best American Economist Under 40. Past positions include: founding associate director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI; President, American Economics Association; Chief Economist, Microsoft. Former boards of directors: Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, and several research nonprofits.

  • MIT

    David Autor is a Ford Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, co-director of the NBER Labor Studies Program, and the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. His scholarship explores the labor market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes.

  • Anthropic

    I work as Chief of Staff to Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. I’m passionate about getting AI policy, safety, and alignment right. Previously, I researched transformative AI at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and at UVA, campaign managed a House race, did grantmaking in AI safety and biosecurity, and won a Rhodes Scholarship. In my free time, I like to write (a gamut from literary short stories to anon AI blogging). More at avitalbalwit.com

  • UC Santa Barbara

    Matt does field research on work involving robots and AI to uncover systematic positive exceptions that we can use across the broader world of work. His award-winning research has been published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, and he has spoken on the TED stage. He also took a two-year hiatus from his PhD at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to help found and fund Humatics, a full-stack IoT startup. He is a 2012 Human Robot Interaction Pioneer, and a 2021 Thinkers50 Radar Class listee. Beane is an assistant professor in the Technology Management Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

  • Schmidt Futures

    Mike Belinsky is a Director of Talent Ventures at Schmidt Futures, where he helps develop the Talent Ventures portfolio, supports current programs on strategy and execution, and helps design and launch new programs. Prior to Schmidt Futures, Mike was a principal at The Bridgespan Group, where he led teams that addressed complex strategy and execution challenges for foundations, impact investors, and nonprofits. At Bridgespan, Mike also helped build the impact investing practice. Mike also co-founded Instiglio, a social enterprise that develops impact bonds and results-based financing programs in low- and middle-income countries. At Instiglio, Mike led the team that designed the first impact bond in India — the Educate Girls Development Impact Bond — which improved primary education outcomes and served as a model for impact bonds in India and beyond. For this work, Mike received the Echoing Green fellowship and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurship award. Mike holds a BA in economics and government from Dartmouth College and an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Kennedy Review. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and lives with his wife and two children in New York City.

  • Mila | U. Montreal

    Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montreal, as well as the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila and the Scientific Director of IVADO. He also holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Considered one of the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence and deep learning, he is the recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun, known as the Nobel prize of computing. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology.

  • Stanford Digital Economy Lab

    I am Seth Benzell, a fellow of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and AP at Chapman University in Orange, CA. S-DEL colleague Victor Ye and I are developing a large-scale, realistically calibrated CGE-OLG model of the global economy undergoing transformative automation for policy and scenario analysis and are looking for partners. See more: sethgbenzell.com.

  • MIT

    I am an economist who studies the role of government policy in stabilizing business cycles and responding to the challenges posed by new digital and automation technologies. I have tackled these questions by sometimes developing theory, sometimes using novel data and empirics, but most often by bringing the two together. I received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2023.

  • Epoch

    I'm the Associate Director of Epoch, and research affiliate at MIT CSAIL. I work on the intersection of economics and computing, focusing on the technical and economic basis for AI automation.

  • Sinead Bovell is a strategic foresight advisor and the founder of WAYE, an organization that prepares youth for a future with advanced technologies, with a focus on non-traditional and minority markets. Sinead advises c-suite executives and senior leadership across governments, global business giants and startups alike. She is an 11x United Nations speaker; she has given formal addresses to presidents, royalty and Fortune 500 leaders on topics ranging from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, and currently serves as a strategic advisor to the United Nations International Telecommunication Union on digital inclusion. Sinead is a regular tech commentator for CNN and NBC on the societal impact of emerging technologies. Prior to founding WAYE, Sinead received her MBA from the University of Toronto and worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney.

  • University of Toronto

    Kevin Bryan is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Toronto, the Academic Lead, Partnerships, at the Creative Destruction Lab, and the Co-Organizer of the NBER Innovation PhD Boot Camp. His research uses game theoretic, empirical, and historical tools to investigate innovation, antitrust, and entrepreneurship.

  • Tiara Capital

    Alena Brynjolfsson is the founder and CIO of Tiara Capital, a quantitative trading firm specializing in machine learning and systematic models for commodities. Tiara's core focus is the research on advanced quantitative methods to navigate the complexities of commodities trading. Prior to launch for Tiara Capital, Alena worked as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Koch Industries and J.P. Morgan Chase.

    She received a Bachelor’s degree from University of Pennsylvania in Mathematics and Economics.

  • Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Stanford HAI

    Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab at the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also holds appointments at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Stanford Department of Economics. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, digital commerce, and intangible assets. A best-selling author, he writes and speaks to global audiences about these topics. Brynjolfsson holds bachelor's and master’s degrees from Harvard in applied mathematics and a Ph.D. from MIT in managerial economics.

  • McKinsey Global Institute

    Michael is a Partner in the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company's research arm. He is based in San Francisco, CA, where he leads research on the impact of disruptive technologies and innovation on business, the economy, and society, including AI, automation and the future of work. Michael holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, and a M.S. in Computer Science, from Indiana University. Prior to joining McKinsey, Michael served as the first Chief Information Officer of the City of Bloomington, Indiana, and was the founder and executive director of HoosierNet, a regional Internet service provider.

  • Canadian Tire Corporation

    Cari is an accomplished business and technology executive with success in leading cultural and digital transformations in complex corporate environments. Cari has led the development and execution of strategy, roadmaps and operating models for Automation and Artificial Intelligence resulting in revenue growth, increased employee engagement and operating efficiencies. She is passionate about developing innovative partnerships with start-up communities and academic institutions. These partnerships have led to the ideation, shared learnings, research, and development of novel AI products and best practices on the operationalization of building and developing AI responsibly.

  • UC Berkeley

    As of spring 2022, I’m working full-time as CEO and Cofounder of Encultured AI. I also work for ~1 day/week as a research scientist at UC Berkeley, within the Center for Human-compatible AI (CHAI) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Prior to that, I worked full-time at CHAI from 2017-2021. I also volunteer for about an hour per week at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, a nonprofit I founded to help research groups streamline operations for projects relevant to humanity’s long-term survival and flourishing. I’m an organizer for and advisor to the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF), where I designed a utility-based system for distributing philanthropic donations through the assessments of a team of “grant recommenders”. Finally, I volunteer for about 1 hour per week as the project director of Survival and Flourishing Projects, a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs.

    My research aims to identify and address societal-scale safety issues with future applications of artificial intelligence… sort of like cybersecurity, but for future, non-human agents that may also be able to take actions in the physical world. I’m interested in collaborating with students and faculty on projects relevant to AI safety, AI ethics, AI transparency, and other topics that could become relevant to how to structure a society with powerful AI systems in it. See, e.g., CS 294-149: Safety and Control for Artificial General Intelligence (Fall 2018),

    My motivation for working in this area is that I think the impact of AI on the future of civilization is likely to be huge, and I think working to make that impact as positive as possible is a huge opportunity to do good for humanity. Many researchers are relatively shy to think and talk about extreme risks from AI (relative to extreme benefits, modest benefits, or modest risks). As a result, extreme risks from AI seem to be relatively neglected relative to their potential future importance, which is why I’ve chosen to focus on this area, and why I co-authored AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety (ARCHES). If it starts to look like extreme risks are getting enough research attention, I might someday switch back to thinking more about benefits.

  • Open Philanthropy

    I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy. I’ve worked on when transformative AI might be developed, how it might affect the pace of AI progress, and whether it could dramatically accelerate economic growth. I’m especially interested to discuss the possibility that once AI can fully automate AI R&D, it will accelerate the pace of AI progress so much that we develop superintelligence within a few months or years. I think this scenario is disturbingly plausible.

  • MIT

    Maryam Farboodi is the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on the economics of big data. She studies how big data technologies have changed trading strategies and financial outcomes, as well the consequences of the emergence of big data for technological growth in the real economy. She also works on developing methodologies to estimate the value of data. Furthermore, Farboodi studies intermediation and network formation among financial institutions, and the spillovers to the real economy. She is also interested in how information frictions shape the local and global economic cycles.

  • Schmidt Sciences

    Stu Feldman is President and Chief Scientist of Schmidt Sciences where he is responsible for shaping fellowship and award programs, and executing larger research programs to support talented scientists who address major questions, build new platforms, and change the way research is done. The major programs focus on Astrophysics and Space Research, Climate, AI and Advanced computing, and Synthetic Biology. He did his academic work in astrophysics and mathematics and earned his AB at Princeton and his PhD at MIT. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Mathematics by the University of Waterloo and an Honorary Doctorate by the Technion. He is former President of ACM.

  • University of Toronto

    I am an Associate Professor at University of Toronto, affiliated faculty at the Vector Institute (and was one of the co-founding members) and VP of AI Research at NVIDIA, leading a research lab in Toronto. Prior coming to Toronto, in 2012/2013, I was a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, an academic institute located in the campus of University of Chicago. My work is in the area of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. My main research interests are in the intersection of computer vision and graphics, 3D vision, 3D reconstruction and synthesis; and interactive methods for image annotation.

  • Stanford University

    I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. My lab, IRIS, studies intelligence through robotic interaction at scale, and is affiliated with SAIL and the ML Group. I also spend time at Google as a part of the Google Brain team.

    I am interested in the capability of robots and other agents to develop broadly intelligent behavior through learning and interaction.

    Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley and my B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

  • Open Philanthropy

    Lukas joined Open Philanthropy in September 2022. He’s currently conducting research on what we can do to reduce potential risks from advanced AI. Previously, he was a research scholar at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. He has a B.S. in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

  • American Securities

    I am interested in the capability of robots and other agents to develop broadly intelligent behavior through learning and interaction.

G-L

  • University of Toronto

    Joshua Gans is a Professor of Strategic Management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto (with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics). Joshua is also Chief Economist of the University of Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab. Prior to 2011, he was the foundation Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, and before that, he was at the School of Economics, University of New South Wales. In 2011, Joshua was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research (New England). Joshua holds a PhD from Stanford University and an honors degree in economics from the University of Queensland. In 2012, Joshua was appointed as a Research Associate of the NBER in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Joshua is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Distinguished Fellow of the Luohan Academy, a Senior Academic Fellow at the e61 Institute, a Research Fellow at FinTech@Cornell Initiative and a research affiliate at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.

    At Rotman, he teaches MBA students entrepreneurial strategy. He has also co-authored (with Stephen King and Robin Stonecash) the Australasian edition of Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics (published by Cengage), Core Economics for Managers (Cengage), Finishing the Job (MUP), Parentonomics (New South/MIT Press) , Information Wants to be Shared (Harvard Business Review Press), The Disruption Dilemma (MIT Press, 2016); Scholarly Publishing and its Discontents (2017), Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2018), Innovation + Equality (MIT Press, 2019). His most recent books were The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of Covid-19 (MIT Press, 2020), The Pandemic Information Solution: Overcoming the Brutal Economics of Covid-19 (Endeavor, 2021), Power & Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press, 2022), The Economics of Blockchain Consensus (Palgrave, 2023) and, in 2024, Entrepreneurship: Choice and Strategy (Norton).

    While Joshua's research interests are varied, he has developed specialities in the nature of technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organisation and regulatory economics. This has culminated in publications in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Regulatory Economics. Joshua serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Industrial Economics and is on the editorial board of Economic Analysis and Policy. He was previously the Department Editor (Business Strategy) of Management Science. In 2007, Joshua was awarded the Economic Society of Australia’s Young Economist Award. In 2008, Joshua was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia. Details of his research activities can be found here. In 2017, Joshua won the Roger Martin Award for Research Excellence at the Rotman School of Management. In 2019, Joshua was awarded the PURC Distinguished Service Award from the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida for his contributions to regulatory economics.

    On the consulting side, Joshua is managing director of Core Economic Research and a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates. In the past, Joshua has worked with several established consulting firms, including London Economics, Frontier Economics, Keystone Strategy and the Brattle Group. He has also been retained by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, where he worked on expert testimony in several abuse of market power cases as well as on issues in telecommunications network competition. Overall, his consulting experience covers intellectual property protection, energy (gas and electricity markets), telecommunications, financial services and banking, pharmaceuticals and rail transport.

  • Berggruen Institute | Noema Magazine

    Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley and my B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.

  • Sanctuary AI

    Suzanne Gildert is CTO and co-founder of Sanctuary, a company pioneering and commercializing human-like intelligence in general purpose robots. Before Sanctuary, Suzanne founded Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. The acquisition of Kindred by Ocado in November 2020 was the third-largest exit for a robotics company in Canadian history. Prior to Kindred, Suzanne ran technical marketing at D-Wave, where she worked on porting AI algorithms to D-Wave’s quantum annealing hardware. Suzanne holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Birmingham. She is also a published digital artist.

  • Alberta Technology and Innovation

    The Honourable Nate Glubish is the Minister of Technology and Innovation for the Alberta Government. In this role he has led efforts to apply technology to deliver better, faster, and smarter services to Albertans. He leads the implementation of the Alberta Technology and Innovation Strategy, Alberta Broadband Strategy and numerous significant technological transformation initiatives. Prior to his political career, he dedicated his professional life to building and investing in Alberta technology companies.

  • University of Toronto

    Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, and Professor of Marketing, at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published academic articles in marketing, computing, law, management, medicine, physics, political science, public health, statistics, and economics. He testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on competition and privacy in digital advertising. Avi received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. He co-authored the bestselling books Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction.

  • Schmidt Sciences

    Mark Greaves is the Executive Director, AI2050. An initiative of Schmidt Sciences, AI2050 supports exceptional people working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI. Prior to joining Schmidt Sciences, Mark was a senior leader in AI and data analytics within the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Director of Knowledge Systems at Vulcan Inc., Director of DARPA’s Joint Logistics Technology Office, and Program Manager in DARPA’s Information Exploitation Office. Mark was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his contributions to US national security while serving at DARPA. He holds a BA in Cognitive Science from Amherst College, an MS in Computer Science from UCLA, and a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University.

  • SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

    Jakub Growiec is Professor and Head of Department of Quantitative Economics at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. His research focuses on economic growth theory, production functions and the economics of automation and AI. He has published >30 articles in internationally respectable JCR-listed journals and received several national prizes for his outstanding scientific achievements. His book “Accelerating Economic Growth: Lessons From 200,000 Years of Technological Progress and Human Development” has been published with Springer in 2022. He believes that rapidly developing AI algorithms are a game-changer for the global economy and society, likely to accelerate global productivity growth in the near future while also producing a range of disruptive results, including existential risk for the entire humankind.

  • University of Toronto

    Gillian K. Hadfield is the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society at the University of Toronto, where she is a professor of law and strategic management. Hadfield is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and in 2023 was named AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences, a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt to help chart the development of AI for societal benefit. She was the inaugural Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society from 2019 through 2023.

  • MIT

    I am a PhD student in economics at MIT. My current research focuses on topics in macroeconomic growth -- especially as it intersects with AI -- as well as monetary economics. Previously I was a data scientist at Uber and a quantitative researcher at AQR Capital.

  • Center for AI Safety

    Dan Hendrycks is the founder and executive director of the Center for AI Safety. He received his PhD in AI from UC Berkeley. He has contributed to the GELU activation function (the most-used activation in state-of-the-art models, including BERT, GPT, Vision Transformers, etc.), benchmarks and methods in robustness, MMLU, and an Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society.

  • Harvard University

    Zoë Hitzig is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her research in microeconomic theory and market design centers on privacy and transparency, especially in digital markets.

  • Greylock

    Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Co-Founder of Inflection AI, Partner at Greylock. An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. He is the host of Masters of Scale, the first American podcast to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale, and Impromptu.

  • MIT | NBER

    John Horton is an Associate Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lately, he's been very interested in the social science potential of LLMs & the impact they might have on labor market matching & productivity.

  • Microsoft

    Eric Horvitz is Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer. He leads strategic initiatives at the intersection of the sciences, technology, and society, including frontier efforts in AI and the biosciences. Dr. Horvitz is known for his research on AI theory and practice. He received the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Prize for his fundamental contributions to the science and practice of AI. He has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Science and has been named a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), and the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). He serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and has been an advisor to multiple national agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI) and as a commissioner on the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI). He earned his bachelors in biophysics from Binghamton University and both an MD and PhD from Stanford University. More information and publications are available at https://erichorvitz.com.

  • Future of Life Institute

    Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH is the Director of the Futures Program at The Future of Life Institute, where she leads work on imagining and architecting futures that realize benefits of emerging technology, while mitigating risks. By training Emilia is a physician-scientist and entrepreneur working on the invention, development, and translation of medical technologies. She is also a scientist and mentor at the Wyss Institute at Harvard. She has authored over a dozen publications and is an inventor on several patents. Previously she was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar to the European Union, Young Pioneer of the World Frontiers Forum, Forbes 30 Under 30, Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum. She is passionate about ensuring that emerging technologies are deployed safely, ethically, and for the betterment of humanity.

  • Northwestern University | Kellogg

    Ben Jones is the Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management. An economist by training, Professor Jones studies the sources of economic growth in advanced economies, with an emphasis on innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress. His research has appeared in journals such as Science and the American Economic Review and been profiled in media outlets such as the Economist and The New Yorker. Professor Jones has served in the White House and in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he co-directs the Innovation Policy Working Group, a senior fellow of the Institute for Progress, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

  • Open Philanthropy

    I'm a research fellow at Open Philanthropy working with the Global Catastrophic Risk Cause Prioritization team, primarily working on issues around the future impacts of AI. In my spare time, I'm a professional forecaster. Previously, I was a research fellow at the Forethought Foundation, a doctoral student in Economics at UCLA, and a research assistant at the Federal Reserve.

  • Future Ventures

    Co-founder of Future Ventures and DFJ. Steve was the early VC investor in SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, Memphis Meats, Hotmail, D-Wave, Boring, and led founding investments in five companies that went public in successful IPOs and several others that became billion-dollar acquisitions. He earned his BSEE, MSEE and MBA at Stanford.

  • Genpact

    Balkrishan Kalra (“BK”) is Genpact’s President and CEO. BK is responsible for accelerating Genpact’s growth with a client-first approach, driving long-term shareholder value, and ensuring the company excels as an employer of choice. He is known for innovation and for delivering large and impactful transformations for clients, leveraging domain, data, digital, and AI capabilities. BK’s long track record of building talented and diverse teams, delivering high-impact client outcomes, and propelling businesses to outcompete in their markets, have made him a trusted business leader and client partner.

  • Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

    Simon Kennedy was named Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) in September 2019. He has overseen ISED’s response to the global pandemic, working with industry to pivot towards the production of medical supplies and to build up Canadian biomanufacturing capacity, rolling out new programs to aid businesses affected by the pandemic, and partnering with Canadian companies to support innovation and industrial transformation. Previously, he served as Deputy Minister of Health. During his tenure, the Department assumed a national leadership role in responding to the opioids crisis; negotiated new funding with the provinces and territories for home care and mental health services; and launched major reforms to pharmaceutical pricing, nutrition labelling, vaping, and tobacco packaging. Mr. Kennedy also oversaw Health Canada’s implementation of the government’s initiative to legalize and regulate cannabis. Mr. Kennedy has served in a variety of progressively senior roles in seven different federal organizations, including in six deputy minister-level appointments. He was the Prime Minister’s personal representative, or “Sherpa”, to the G-20 from 2012 to 2014. He has degrees from Mount Saint Vincent University and Syracuse University, and is a graduate of INSEAD’s Advanced Management Programme. Mr. Kennedy has been a member of the board of a variety of organizations, including the Canadian Tourism Commission, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Mental Health Commission of Canada, and Ottawa Community Foundation, among others. He co-chairs the Ottawa Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

  • Khosla Ventures

    Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology fan. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, focused on impactful technology investments in software, AI, robotics, 3D printing, healthcare and more. Mr. Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. One of Mr. Khosla’s greatest passions is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, assisting entrepreneurs and helping them build technology-based businesses. Mr. Khosla is driven by the desire to make a positive impact through using technology to reinvent societal infrastructure and multiply resources. He is also passionate about Social Entrepreneurship. Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

  • California State University Board of Trustees

    Trustee and immediate past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the California State University System

  • United Nations

    Katya Klinova is the Head of AI Initiatives at the UN Secretary-General's Innovation Lab. Before that, she served as Acting Director of Research and Programs and as the Head of AI, Labor and the Economy portfolio at Partnership on AI. Prior to that, Katya had a long career at Google, and conducted research on the impact of AI on the growth prospects of low- and middle-income countries at Harvard. Katya holds an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, and an M.Sc. in Networks and Data Science from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Her work and commentary have been published by ACM/AAAI, Oxford University Press, MIT Technology Review, the OECD, WIRED, Business Insider, Al Jazeera, and others.

  • Stanford University

    As the Executive Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Christie is at the forefront of guiding the Lab's planning, strategy, and program development. Her commitment to building diverse, multi-disciplinary, impact-oriented research programs drives the Lab's groundbreaking research on the economic and social implications of AI. Prior to her role at Stanford, Christie spent over a decade at MIT. She held the position of Associate Director at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, where she played a pivotal role in shaping the Initiative's mission and executing on its goals. She also served as the Head of Member Services for the MIT Energy Initiative, showcasing her versatility and leadership in diverse technological and disciplinary domains. Christie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Boston University, and she furthered her academic pursuits with a Master of Science in Writing and Cultural Politics from the University of Edinburgh.

  • University of Virginia | GovAI

    Anton Korinek is an Economics Professor at the University of Virginia and the Darden School of Business as well as the Economics of AI Lead at the Centre for the Governance of AI. He is also a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Advisor at the Partnership on AI, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2007 after working in IT and finance. His research analyzes how to prepare for a world of transformative AI systems. He investigates the implications of advanced AI for economic growth, labor markets, inequality, and the future of our society.

  • Microsoft

    Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, author, composer, and media personality. Currently Microsoft’s Prime Unifying Scientist. Coined “Virtual Reality” and “Mixed Reality”; first VR startup, early 1980s; first manufactured headsets and key apps in medicine, design, training, etc.. Humanist critic of tech culture, with bestselling books like You Are Not a Gadget and Ten Arguments to, you know; top lit award in Europe. Declared one of 25 most influential people in tech of previous 25 years by Wired mag. IEEE lifetime award. Formerly Chief Scientist of Internet2. Founder of companies acquired by Google, Pfizer, Adobe, and Oracle. Also work on physics fundamentals, economics, philosophy, UI, and of course AI. Plays unusual music.

  • Scotiabank

    Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Scotiabank

  • University of Toronto

    Assistant professor of strategic management doing research in entrepreneurship and organizational economics, broadly interested in philosophy, social sciences, technology, and the future of humanity.

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  • University of Oxford

    William MacAskill is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest associate professor of philosophy in the world. He cofounded the nonprofits Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and 80,000 Hours, which together have moved over $300 million to effective charities. He is the author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe The Future.

  • Intrepid Growth Partners

    Mark trained in Physiological Sciences including specialization in neurosciences at Oxford, researched developmental biology, and studied Clinical Medicine at Cambridge before pursuing a career in finance. For more than two decades he worked at Goldman Sachs in Europe and Asia where he was a Partner and among other roles was Vice Chair and the Head of Investment Banking for Asia Pacific. He then joined CPPIB first as Head of International and then served as President and CEO for five years. Under his leadership, CPPIB grew its exposure to technology investing by launching a Venture and Growth Equity strategy, opening an office in San Francisco, and creating partnerships with leading venture firms and incubators, like the Creative Destruction Lab. Before founding Intrepid Growth Partners, Mark co-founded and was the founding CEO of Opto Investments, a software platform that raised a $145M series A and is using software to create a new market for investment advisors to access alternative investments. Mark served on the board of Sequoia Heritage and currently serves on GIC's International Advisory Board, Serendipity Capital, and is the Vice Chair of Opto Investments. Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Cambridge University.

  • GovAI

    Sam is a Research Fellow at GovAI, where his research focuses on better measuring -- and strengthening policy preparedness for -- the economic impacts of advanced AI systems. Prior to joining GovAI, Sam worked with OpenAI's Policy Research team to assess the labor market impacts of frontier systems and develop public policy options in light of present and future impacts. Previously, Sam managed Y Combinator Research's Basic Income Study, ran a childhood health program evaluation in West Bengal, India, worked at UCSF's Global Health Group, and consulted for the Independent Evaluation Unit of the Green Climate Fund.

  • Alphabet, Netflix, Airbnb, Arista Networks, and Blend

    Ann Mather has almost 18 years of experience serving on the boards of some of the most transformative technology companies in the world. Most notably, she has been on the boards of Alphabet (Google) since 2005, Netflix since 2010 and Airbnb since 2018. She has significant additional board experience helping to shepherd earlier stage companies to successful outcomes, including the sale of Shopping.com to Ebay in 2005, the sale of Zappos to Amazon in 2009, the sale of Ariat to the Fisher family in 2012, the sale of Shutterfly to Apollo in 2019, the sale of Glu to EA in 2021, and several years chairing the board of MGM prior to the announced acquisition by Amazon in 2021. IPOs launched during her board tenure include Shopping.com, Glu, Arista Networks, Airbnb, Bumble and Blend, and Planet announced a $2.8B SPAC deal in July 2021. Ann has also been an independent trustee to the Dodge & Cox Mutual Funds since 2011.

    Prior to her board work, Ann was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pixar, before that she held various executive positions at The Walt Disney Company. Ann was made an Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge in 2016, and has been a member of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the USA, Dame Karen Pierce’s Strategic Advisory Group since 2021.

  • MIT

    Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Technology and Society organization at Google. He studies how technological progress changes the world. His next book, The Geek Way, will be published by Little, Brown in 2023. His previous books include More from Less and, with Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age.

  • Cosmos Institute

    Brendan McCord is founder and Chair of the Cosmos Institute, a non-profit focused on AI and human flourishing. In the private sector, Mr. McCord was founding CEO of two AI startups that were acquired for $400 million. In the public sector, he was principal founder of the first applied AI organization for the U.S. Department of Defense and author of its first AI strategy. Mr. McCord is a Visiting Fellow in philosophy at St. Catherine's College at Oxford. He earned a bachelor’s degree from MIT and a master’s degree from Harvard Business School.

  • University of Galway

    John McHale is Established Professor of Economics at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway. He previously served as Executive Dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Law and also as Director of the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change. Prior to joining the University of Galway, John held positions as Assistant Professor of Economics and Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and as Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Toller Family Research Fellow at the Queen’s University, Ontario. He served as President of the Irish Economic Association from 2016 to 2018.

  • OpenAI

    Pamela Mishkin leads OpenAI's Economic Impacts team. They analyze AI's current effects, develop tools to forecast future impacts, and research policies for societal resilience against potential impacts.

  • CMU

    Tom Mitchell is the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the world's first Machine Learning Department. His research interests include AI, cognitive neuroscience, and the impact of AI on society. A major current focus is on AI to improve online education, where his research has been deployed to computer learning environments that serve millions of students. Mitchell is currently co-chairing with Erik Brynjolfsson a U.S. National Academies study on AI and the Future of Work.

  • MIT | University of Chicago

    Sendhil Mullainathan is the Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science and Director of the Center for Applied AI at Chicago Booth. His current research focuses on integrating formal models of behavioral economics into computational pipelines. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Outside of research, he co-founded a non-profit to apply behavioral science (ideas42), a center to promote the use of randomized control trials in development (the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), and most recently Nightingale Open Science, a data platform that allows researchers to access medical imaging data. He has also started several companies (Dandelion Health and Pique). He has worked in government in various roles, and currently serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation.

  • OpenAI

    Mira Murati is Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. She leads the company’s research, product, and safety teams, which work together to create safe and powerful AI that benefits humanity and has a positive impact on the world. Mira and her teams are pushing the frontiers of what AI can do, making it safer, and aligning it with human intentions and values. Prior to joining OpenAI, she managed the product and engineering teams at Leap Motion, and led the design, development and launch of vehicle products at Tesla Motors, including the Model X, as well as innovative programs in aerospace. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering.

  • UC Berkeley

    Abhishek Nagaraj is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Specializing in innovation management and entrepreneurship, he is particularly intrigued by the nuances of data-driven decision-making on innovation and creativity. Abhishek's research emphasizes the dual-edged nature of data: as a tool for better decision-making and a potential force that could skew innovators' focus. He is deeply interested in the evolving landscape of intellectual property, especially in how it should be redesigned for the age of generative AI. His work has garnered several prestigious awards, including the BPS Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. In addition to his academic pursuits, Abhishek is committed to advising startups and large corporations on their go-to-market and innovation strategies.

  • AI Fund

    Andrew Ng is the Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Founder of DeepLearning.AI, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. As a pioneer in machine learning and online education, Dr. Ng has changed countless lives through his work in AI and has taught over 8 million people AI. He was the founding lead of the Google Brain team, which led Google’s drive to adopt modern AI, and the VP & Chief Scientist at Baidu. He is also Chairman and Co-founder of Coursera, a leading online education company. In 2023, he was named to the Time100 AI list of the most influential AI persons in the world. Dr. Ng now focuses his time primarily on his entrepreneurial ventures, looking for the best ways to accelerate responsible AI practices in the larger global economy. Dr. Ng has authored over 200 papers in AI and related fields, and holds a B.Sc. from CMU, M.Sc. from MIT and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

  • Stanford Digital Economy Lab

    As a Research Scientist in the Digital Economy Lab at Stanford University, David is helping to lead projects in the area of “Measuring the Digital Economy”. His research explores new and better ways to measure modern and digital economies to advance economic metrics and statistics on economic output and welfare. He previously worked as an Economist at the OECD in Paris and as a Senior Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London. David is a Research Affiliate at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) and received his PhD from the London School of Economics.

  • Stanford HAI | Google

    Peter Norvig is a Fellow at Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute and a researcher at Google Inc; previously he directed Google's core search algorithms group and Google's Research group. He is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field, and co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online courses.

  • Georgia Tech

    Alexander Oettl is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, holder of the Dean's Distinguished Term Professorship, Co-Site Lead of the Creative Destruction Lab-Atlanta, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the economics of innovation, entrepreneurship, and science. His research explores how new breakthrough ideas are created and diffused by individuals, firms, and regions. His research has been profiled in numerous international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Nature, Science, The Atlantic, Wired, Business Insider, among others.

  • GreatPoint Ventures

    DJ Patil is an entrepreneur, investor, scientist, and leader in public policy. He has held senior roles in industry, academia, and government and his work has been featured in two Michael Lewis books (The Fifth Risk and Premonition). As a General Partner at GreatPoint Ventures he focuses on building companies in healthcare, enterprise technologies, and national security.

  • The Brookings Institution

    Sanjay Patnaik is the director of the Center on Regulation and Markets (CRM), the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development, and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. He also is a fellow for the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at Johns Hopkins University. Trained as an applied economist, Sanjay earned his doctorate at Harvard University, and also holds a master’s degree in economics and computer science and a master’s degree in business engineering and computer science, both from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.

  • MIT | Stanford University

    Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland works with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and also directs MIT Connection Science, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab . He is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was one of the UN Secretary General's "Data Revolutionaries" helping to forge the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Recent invited keynotes include annual meetings of OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and council member within the World Economic Forum. He has a h-index of 151. Companies and systems from Pentland’s lab include the largest rural health care service delivery system in the worl , the news and advertising arm of Alibaba, and authentication services for 85% of all internet interactions..

  • 50Y

    Scott is a partner at Fifty Years, a deep tech seed investor backing founders to build the future (Solugen, Astranis, BillionToOne, Worldcoin, ...). Previously, he was cofounder and CEO of Vicarious, an AGI and robotics startup backed by $250M from Khosla, 8VC, Founders Fund and acquired by Alphabet in 2022. While at Vicarious, Scott published research on neuro-inspired AI in Science, NeurIPs, ICML. Before Vicarious, he was an EIR at Founders Fund and started a company in the YC 2008 batch.

  • Boston University

    I am an associate professor at Boston University. My research focuses on the impact of technology on inequality, labor markets, and growth.

  • Sanctuary AI

    Geordie Rose co-founded Sanctuary in 2018 and is our CEO. Prior to Sanctuary, Geordie founded D­-Wave, the world’s first quantum computing company, and was the CEO of Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. He has sold quantum computers and robots to Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Gap Inc., and several US government agencies. He was named the 2011 Canadian Innovator of the Year, was listed on Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2013, and won the 2014 Canadian Technology Leader award.

    Geordie holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia. He is a two-time Canadian national wrestling champion, is a member of the McMaster University Hall of Fame, and was the winner of the 2010 NAGA masters white belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu world championships in both gi and no-gi categories.

  • University of Toronto

    Professor Laura C. Rosella, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, holds Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics and the Stephen Family Research Chair in Community Health at the Institute for Better Health. She is the Education Lead for the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine and Associate Director Education at the Data Science Institute. She leads the AI for Public Health Research Training Platform (AI4PH) focused on establishing an AI workforce in public health. She has authored over 260 peer-reviewed publications, was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars.

  • UC Berkeley

    Stuart Russell, OBE, is a Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and the author (with Peter Norvig) of the standard text in the field. He has been active in arms control for nuclear and autonomous weapons. His latest book, Human Compatible, addresses the long-term impact of AI on humanity.

  • Creative Destruction Lab

    Sonia is the Executive Director of Creative Destruction Lab, a global not-for-profit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. She is responsible for the CDL’s strategic, operational and programmatic leadership, coordination and oversight to ensure the success of CDL and its ventures across 13 university-based locations in 7 countries. She is the founder of the Sonia Sennik Resilience Fund, the largest multi-donor endowment in McMaster Engineering history. Sonia is also the host and executive producer of Connected Intelligence, a podcast about all the things we bring to work that aren’t actually about the work.

  • Open Philanthropy

    Carl Shulman is an Advisor to Open Philanthropy and a Research Associate of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. His research focuses on modeling and forecasting advanced artificial intelligence, and on related policy and philanthropic issues. He studied law at New York University and philosophy at Harvard University.

  • MIT

    Charlotte Siegmann, an Economics PhD student at MIT, works on multi-agent learning and game theory, digital platform regulation and the economics of the semiconductor industry (such as antitrust, taxation), e.g how compute price and quantity mechanism could be used to steer the development of transformative AI and redistribute benefits. She is a founding member of the Berlin-based think tank AI Policy think tank KIRA. She has worked in the European Parliament, as a research assistant for Chad Jones (Stanford) and with Evan Hubinger (Anthropic). Additionally, she has published research on the regulatory diffusion of AI regulation.

  • University of Toronto

    Avery Slater is Assistant Professor with the Department of English at the University of Toronto and a faculty fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Her recent work on artificial intelligence and the humanities can be found in IEEE, Symplokē, The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and others. She serves as president of the MLA’s Executive Forum for the Digital Humanities.

  • Scotiabank

    Stephen Sparkes is the CISO & Enterprise Platforms at Scotiabank. Prior to joining Scotiabank to lead cybersecurity, Stephen was the head of Cyber Security Technology within the Global Information Security team at Bank of America. Stephen has held multiple leadership roles on Wall Street, including CIO for Barclays Capital in the Americas, CTO for Investment Banking and Capital Markets, co-head of Infrastructure, and head of Technology and Information Risk at Morgan Stanley. Earlier in his career, Stephen headed Fixed Income Technology for Credit Suisse First Boston, was a Stratus systems engineer for Salomon Brothers, and started out as a programmer for Logica working on ATM and point-of-sale systems. He also spent a year at an enterprise middleware startup, Incapture Technologies, before joining Bank of America. He is a long-standing champion of diversity and has cultivated diverse leadership teams - and invested in mentoring programs - to encourage greater diversity in the workplace.

  • RBC

    John Stackhouse, Senior Vice President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada. John Stackhouse heads RBC’s Economics and Thought Leadership group, leading the organization’s work on economic, technological and social issues. He also heads the new RBC Climate Action Institute, which aims to inform and inspire Canadians on pathways to net zero. John is an internationally recognized author and speaker on a range of issues and events. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail and editor of Report on Business. He also serves as a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. John has written four books and co-authored four others. His latest, Planet Canada: How Our Expats Are Shaping the Future, explores the untapped resource of the millions of Canadians who don't live here but exert their influence from afar.

  • Creative Destruction Lab | University of Toronto

    Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University Professor, Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, working on great power competition and the international regulation of technology, with a particular interest in new hybrid institutions.

  • University of Michigan

    Betsey Stevenson is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. . She is a member of the Board of Directors of Lyft, Inc and a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Previously, she served as a member of the Biden-Harris transition team at the U.S. Treasury, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2015 and was the Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011. Dr Stevenson has published widely in leading economics journals about the labor market and the impact of public policies.

  • Inflection AI

    Mustafa is co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, an AI-first consumer software company. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, a leading AI company that was acquired by Google. There he was Head of Applied AI and ran a division called DeepMind for Google which was responsible for integrating the company’s technology across a wide range of Google products. He joined Google full-time in 2019, becoming VP of AI products & AI policy. In 2022, he joined Greylock as a Venture Partner, where he specialized in AI investing. He is the author of The Coming Wave, published by Crown in the US in September 2023. He is also on the Board of The Economist newspaper and is a Senior Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Oxford | KCL

    Dr Daniel Susskind is a Research Professor in Economics at King’s College London, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. He is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Future of the Professions (2015) and the author of A World Without Work (2020), described by The New York Times as "required reading for any potential presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future”. His TED Talk, on the future of work, has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. And his new book, Growth: A Reckoning, will be published in April 2024. Previously he worked in various roles in the British Government – in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and in the Cabinet Office.

  • University of Alberta

    Rich Sutton, FRS FRSC, works at Keen Technologies, the University of Alberta, and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1984 and a BA in psychology from Stanford University in 1978. Prior to joining the University of Alberta in 2003, he worked in industry at AT&T and GTE Labs, and in academia at the University of Massachusetts. He helped found DeepMind Alberta in 2017 and worked there until its dissolution in 2023. Sutton is an author of the textbook Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, and his scientific publications have been cited more than 140,000 times. He is also a libertarian, a chess player, and a cancer survivor.

  • Google DeepMind

    Nick Swanson works in the Google DeepMind Public Policy Team, his interests are in science and industrial policy, the economics of AI and the role of AI in Government. He previously worked at the UK Government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, for the Mayor of London, and for the Labour Party.

  • MIT

    Max Tegmark is a professor doing AI research at MIT as part of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions and the Center for Brains, Minds & Machines. He advocates for safe and beneficial AI as president of the Future of Life Institute and in his book “Life 3.0”. His current AI research focuses on mechanistic interpretability and formal verification.

  • University of Southern California

    Florenta Teodoridis is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Southern California. Florenta's main areas of interest are the economics of innovation and science, creativity and the impact of technology on society. She investigates factors that influence the rate and direction of technological advancements, such as research technology, collaborations, and breadth and depth of expertise, and the impact of technological advancements, such as artificial intelligence and quantum computers, on business strategy and productivity.

  • MIT

    Neil Thompson is the Director of the FutureTech research project at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and a Principal Investigator at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he co-directed the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab), and a Visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. He has advised businesses and government on the future of Moore’s Law, has been on National Academies panels on transformational technologies and scientific reliability, and is part of the Council on Competitiveness’ National Commission on Innovation & Competitiveness Frontiers. He has a PhD in Business and Public Policy from Berkeley, where he also did Masters degrees in Computer Science and Statistics. He also has a masters in Economics from the London School of Economics, and undergraduate degrees in Physics and International Development. Prior to academia, He worked at organizations such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Bain and Company, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Canadian Parliament.

  • Kistler Ritso Foundation

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  • Sage

    Sebastian loves life and AI.

  • Department of Economics, University of Oxford

    I am a doctoral student in economics at Oxford and research affiliate at GPI, an Oxford research institute. I will soon start a postdoc here, at DEL at Stanford. My research has been confined to economic theory, but has covered decision theory, philanthropic strategy, and growth theory. Within growth theory, I focus on the long-run growth potential of AI and on tradeoffs between growth and catastrophic risk.

  • Stanford Digital Economy Lab

    Gabriel Unger is a postdoc at Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 2023, and jointly completed a JD at Yale Law School. His main field is macroeconomics. His research broadly attempts to understand how technological changes, like the IT Revolution, change our understanding of important macroeconomic questions.

  • Waabi

    Raquel Urtasun is the Founder and CEO of Waabi. A world-renowned expert in the field of AI, Raquel is pioneering the application of this transformative technology to build innovative self-driving solutions. Raquel is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and co-founded the Vector Institute for AI together with Geoff Hinton. Over her 25 year career within AI, she has been the recipient of several high profile and prestigious awards. Prior to founding Waabi, Raquel was the Chief Scientist and Head of R&D at Uber ATG and a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. In 2023, Raquel was named one of the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI, made Business Insider’s AI 100 list of Top People in AI, and was awarded the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s Emerging Tech CEO Award and the Order of Ontario.

  • Google

    Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He started in May 2002 as a consultant and has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy and public policy. He is also an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management.

  • Columbia University

    Laura Veldkamp is a Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, a former editor of the Journal of Economic Theory, and a member of the NBER, CEPR, AFA board and the AEA awards committee. She consults for the New York and Minneapolis Federal Reserve Banks. Professor Veldkamp’s research focuses on information choice, how that information affects decisions, and how those decisions affect the economy. Her recent work examines the data economy and the value of data as an asset. She is an author of The Data Economy: Tools and Applications, with Isaac Baley, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

  • Google

    Kent Walker is the President of Global Affairs at Google and Alphabet, where he oversees the teams responsible for legal matters, government affairs, and content policy. For nearly 30 years, Kent has focused on the intersection of technology, law, and policy. Since joining Google in 2006, he has led the company’s advocacy on competition, content, copyright, and privacy. He has worked with government leaders and regulators around the world and served as the first chair of the Global Internet Forum to Combat Terrorism. After overseeing the creation of Google’s AI Principles in 2018, he became chair of the company’s Advanced Technology Review Council. Kent graduated with honors from Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco and Washington D.C., starting one of the first “computer crime” units in the country and later advising the U.S. Attorney General on technology policy issues. He went on to hold executive positions at Netscape, AOL, and eBay, as they navigated the rise of the web, online communities, and ecommerce.

  • Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Alex founded Scale as a student at MIT at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Under Alex's leadership, Scale has grown to a $7bn valuation serving hundreds of customers across industries from finance to model builders to U.S. government agencies.

  • Union Square Ventures

    Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

  • Opendoor | Stanford Digital Economy Lab

    Victor is a research scientist at Opendoor Technologies and a fellow at Boston University. His research focuses on computational economics and large-scale simulation models, with applications in housing, public finance, macro, and the economics of AI. Victor received his Ph.D in Economics from Boston University, and an M.S. in Statistical and Economic Modeling from Duke University, where he also received a B.A. in Philosophy. Victor’s ongoing projects with DEL researchers focus on the intergenerational, macroeconomic, and fiscal implications of advanced AI. His publications have been covered by media outlets including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Hill, The New York Times, and Forbes. He has also been invited to present his research at the NBER, the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Boston, and Kansas City, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

  • Scotiabank

    As Group Head, Technology and Operations at Scotiabank, Michael has responsibility for the advancement of the Bank’s overall technology and global operations strategy and jointly planning the digital strategy. Before joining Scotiabank, Michael held senior positions in IT, including President and COO of Algorithmics and Vice President, Risk Analytics at IBM. Michael holds a Master of Science in Commerce, an MBA in Finance and a PhD in Economics. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, the Global Risk Institute and Unity Health.

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