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 RSVP Here [[link removed]]

FEATURING

Alvaro Bedoya - Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

**NEW SPEAKER** Doha Mekki - Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Andreas Schwab - Member of the European Parliament, European People's Party

**NEW SPEAKER** Christy Hoffman - General Secretary, UNI Global Union

Tim Wu - Professor at Columbia Law School, former special assistant to the President for technology and competition policy

**NEW SPEAKER** Zephyr Teachout - Professor of Law at Fordham University, Special Advisor for Economic Justice to New York AG Letitia James

Rana Foroohar - Global business columnist and associate editor, Financial Times

Julia Angwin - Investigative journalist, contributing Opinion writer for the New York Times

Cristina Caffarra - Managing Partner and head of Keystone Europe

Suresh Venkatasubramanian - Director of the Center for Tech Responsibility; Professor of Computer Science, Brown University

Laura Edelson - Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University. Co-Director, Cybersecurity for Democracy

**NEW SPEAKER** Johnny Ryan - Senior fellow Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Open Markets Institute. Former Chief Policy Officer Brave Software

**NEW SPEAKER** Ashley Irwin - President, Society of Composers & Lyricists

**NEW SPEAKER** Nora Benavidez - Senior Council and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights, Free Press

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.

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