We host seminars and workshops to better connect the field of AI governance. You can watch recordings and read transcripts of some of our events below. Please reach out if you would like to give a seminar related to our work.
April 28, 2023
In April 2023, GovAI was joined for an online discussion by Lauren Kahn from the Council on Foreign Relations. GovAI's International Governance Lead Robert Trager hosted the discussion.
April 20, 2023
In March 2023, we hosted a presentation by Tom Davidson (Open Philanthropy) about his draft paper "What a Compute-Centric Framework Says About Takeoff Speeds". GovAI's Acting Director Ben Garfinkel..
October 19, 2022
In October 2022, we hosted a discussion with Anton Korinek and Megan Juelfs about Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work.
February 9, 2022
In April 2022, we hosted a discussion with Paul Scharre and Helen Toner about AI Capabilities and the Nature of Warfare...
In this seminar, Sam Altman and William G. Gale discussed Sam's blog post 'Moore's Law for Everything' and taxation solutions for advanced AI.
July 13, 2021
AI poses a risk of automating and degrading jobs around the world, creating harmful effects to vulnerable workers’ livelihoods and well-being. How can we deliberately account for the impacts on wor...
May 12, 2021
Over the next decades, AI will dramatically change the economic landscape. It may also magnify inequality, both within and across countries. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, joined ...
March 9, 2021
Following the 2014 Sunflower Movement protests, Audrey Tang—a prominent member of the civic social movement g0v—was headhunted by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration to become the...
January 19, 2021
In the spring of 2018, MIT President L. Rafael Reif commissioned the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. He tasked them with understanding the relationships between emerging technologies and ...
November 30, 2020
While artificial intelligence provides the backbone for many tools people use around the world, recent work has brought attention to the potential biases that may be baked into these algorithms. Wh...
October 14, 2020
How will economic growth evolve in the long run? This session explored the wide range of plausible scenarios. Aghion, Jones & Jones 2017 analyze how artificial intelligence may super-charge the gro...
September 16, 2020
In September 2019, Facebook announced that it was establishing an independent Facebook Oversight Board, with the power to make binding decisions on content moderation. Noah Feldman, one of the Boar...
June 17, 2020
The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that poli...
May 13, 2020
This event focussed on questions such as: Will COVID-19 cause automation to increase? A decline in labour share of income? A rise of superstar companies? What does COVID-19 teach us about policy re...
July 16, 2019
Autonomy on the battlefield represents one possible usage of narrow AI by militaries around the world. Research and development on autonomous weapon systems (AWS) by major powers, middle powers, an...
June 17, 2019
Computer security is no longer about data; it’s about life and property. This change makes an enormous difference, and will inevitably disrupt technology industries. Firstly, data authentication an...
