July 7th, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
The 2016 AI Now Symposium on the Social and Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence Technologies was the first annual AI Now symposium, co-hosted by AI Now, NYU, and the Obama White House's Office of Science and Technology. The event was part of the White House's Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, which convened four separate workshops exploring AI's future impacts. To explore the social and economic implications, AI Now 2016 gathered 100 leading experts on looking at AI's effect on inequality, labor, health, and ethics. These experts spent a day in closed-door talks and discussion, then joined an evening program open to the public.
Here we offer a summary of AI Now, reviewing its core themes and key insights, and offering high-level recommendations for stakeholders engaged in the production, use, governance, and assessment of AI in the near-term.
These primers were distributed to attendees of the AI Now Expert Workshop before the event. They were created to provide thorough overviews of the opportunities and issues posed by the introduction of AI across AI Now's four focus areas.
Jennifer Chayes
Lilly Irani
Paul Dourish
Kate Crawford, Ed Felten, Meredith Whittaker
Ed Felten
Julia Angwin, Cynthia Braezeal, Genevieve Bell, Yann LeCunn
Jason Furman
Henry Siu, Alondra Nelson, Latanya Sweeney, Lucy Suchman, Mustafa Suleyman
Chief Scientist
Dstillery/NYU
@claudia_perlich
Fellow
Roosevelt Institute
Director
New York University Information Law Institute
Postdoc Researcher
Data & Society
@KadijaFerryman
Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker, AI Now Co-Chairs.
Followed by Ed Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Speakers:
Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
A series of short thought-starters, focusing both on critical analysis of AI’s impacts and on exploring AI’s current deployments and uses.
Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, Housing and Economic Development, New York City
Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker, AI Now Co-Chairs
Address from Ed Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
A rapid fire question and answer session with:
An expert panel discussing the implications of AI technologies
Attendees are invited to pose questions to panelists using our hashtag on twitter: #AINow.