Brookings/GovAI Conference on the Governance of Transformative AI

Agenda, Monday, September 26, 2022


Venue: The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036


8:30am Breakfast and Registration


9:00am Opening Remarks by Amy Liu (Interim President, Brookings)


Introduction by Anton Korinek (Brookings/GovAI)


Session 1: Perspectives on the governance of transformative AI from government, think tanks, research, and labs


9:15am Panel discussion: Tantum Collins (OSTP), Ben Garfinkel (GovAI), Jade Leung (OpenAI), Chris Meserole (Brookings)


10:15am Coffee break


Session 2: AI arms races and national security


10:35am Keynote by Jane Pinelis (Chief of AI Assurance, DoD CDAO)


11:05am Presentations:

Saif Khan (NSC): Semiconductor supply chains and national security

Greg Allen (CSIS): Current and future military applications of AI

Robert Trager (GovAI): international governance regimes for emerging technologies

Paul Scharre (CNAS): Arms control and confidence-building measures


12:25pm Lunch


Session 3: Regulating increasingly advanced AIs


1:15pm Keynote by Jack Clark (Co-Founder, Anthropic)


1:55pm Presentations on advanced AI regulation:

Markus Anderljung (GovAI): Regulating increasingly advanced AI systems

Alex Engler (Brookings): Regulating AI - Lessons from Europe

Richard Ngo (OpenAI): Alignment for increasingly advanced AI systems


2:30pm Coffee break


Session 3 (continued): Regulating increasingly advanced AIs


2:50pm Presentations on advanced AI regulation (continued):

Baobao Zhang (Syracuse): Understanding AI governance through surveys: TAI timelines and public attitudes

Andrew Trask (GovAI): Towards global infrastructure for understanding algorithmic outcomes


3:25pm Presentations on governing recommender systems:

Chris Meserole (Brookings): Policy options for recommendation models

Matt Sheehan (CEIP): Chinese regulations on recommender systems


4:05pm Coffee break


Session 4: Economic governance of transformative AI


4:25pm Presentations:

Anton Korinek (Brookings/GovAI): TAI and income distribution

Katya Klinova (PAI): How to advance shared prosperity

Andy Berg (IMF): Effects of TAI on developing countries


5:30pm End of conference


6:30pm Conference dinner

ala (Levantine cuisine) - 1320 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20036

Participants:

Gregory Allen, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Jeff Alstott, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Markus Anderljung, Centre for the Governance of AI

Georg Arndt, Centre for the Governance of AI

Andre Barbe, World Bank

Andrew Berg, International Monetary Fund

Emma Bluemke, Centre for the Governance of AI

Alexis Carlier, Fathom Radiant

Jack Clark, Anthropic

Tantum Collins, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Tom Davidson, Open Philanthropy

Noemi Dreksler, Centre for the Governance of AI

Sharon Du, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Alex Engler, The Brookings Institution

Ben Garfinkel, Centre for the Governance of AI

Lennart Heim, Centre for the Governance of AI

Lewis Ho, DeepMind

Joseph Keller, The Brookings Institution

Saif Khan, National Security Council

Katya Klinova, Partnership on AI

Anton Korinek, The Brookings Institution and Centre for the Governance of AI

Jade Leung, OpenAI

Lucy Lim, DeepMind

Amy Liu, The Brookings Institution

Chris Meserole, The Brookings Institution

Richard Ngo, OpenAI

Cullen O'Keefe, OpenAI

Abigail Olvera, Center for the Future and Rethink Priorities

Matt O'Shaughnessy, Carnegie Endowment

Sanjay Patnaik, The Brookings Institution

Jane Pinelis, DoD CDAO AI Assurance

Daniel Rock, University of Pennsylvania

Paul Scharre, Center for a New American Security

Max Schnidman, University of Virginia

Jonas Schuett, Centre for the Governance of AI

Matthew Sheehan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sarah Shoker, OpenAI

Melanie Sisson, The Brookings Institution

Siddarth Srinivasan, The Brookings Institution

Eoghan Stafford, Centre for the Governance of AI

Rayan Sud, The Brookings Institution

Don Suh, University of Virginia

Robert Trager, UCLA Centre for the Governance of AI

Andrew Trask, Centre for the Governance of AI

Baobao Zhang, Syracuse University

Remco Zwetsloot, Center for Strategic and International Studies