AI and the Public Interest

How Competition Policy Can Help Protect Democracy, Safety, Property, and Innovation

November 15, 2023 
In-person and online | WASHINGTON, D.C.
JW Marriott |1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

FEATURING

Alvaro Bedoya - Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
Andreas Schwab - Member of the European Parliament, European People's Party
Tim Wu - Professor at Columbia Law School, former special assistant to the President for technology and competition policy
Julia Angwin - Investigative journalist, contributing Opinion writer for the New York Times
Laura Edelson - Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University. Co-Director, Cybersecurity for Democracy.
Rana Foroohar - Global business columnist and associate editor, Financial Times
Suresh Venkatasubramanian - Director of the Center for Tech Responsibility; Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
Cristina Caffarra - Managing Partner and head of Keystone Europe
Liz Pelly - Freelance journalist specialized in music industry
Sarah Myers West - Managing Director, AI Now Institute
Amba Kak - Executive Director, AI Now Institute
Courtney Radsch - Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty, Open Markets Institute
Max von Thun - Director, Europe, Open Markets Institute
Karina Montoya - Senior Reporter, Center for Journalism and Liberty, Open Markets Institute
Barry Lynn - Executive Director, Open Markets Institute

Please join the Open Markets Institute and the AI Now Institute on November 15 in Washington for a wide-ranging discussion about how to understand the promise, threats, and practical regulatory challenges we face in managing the advent of large scale AI.

Since bursting into public debate a year ago, the recent wave of AI has been celebrated by many as a technological breakthrough that promises huge boosts in productivity and innovation. Others however, loudly warn that AI poses considerable threats to the wellbeing of individuals and the stability of our democracy and society. A third group claims AI gravely endangers national security, fueling an arms race against the Chinese state. Meanwhile, writers and artists fear AI will further undermine their ownership of what they create, devalue their skills, and ultimately destroy their careers.

We will also examine large scale AI in relation to the already existing powers, structures, and behaviors of the corporations that control these technologies and the computing systems on which they depend. And we will ask whether antitrust and other competition law and policy can play a role in protecting democracy, individual health and wellbeing, the properties of creators, and open and competitive innovation. 

The event will bring together leading policymakers, law enforcers, technologists, entrepreneurs, writers, musicians, policy experts, and academics, from the United States and Europe.