The A.I. Revolution | DealBook Summit 2024

Powerful technologies have always been double-edged swords. That’s been true since fire; it could cook your food and keep you warm, but, out of control, burn down your hut.

Modern artificial intelligence is poised to take the mixed-blessing principle to new heights, a technology moving faster and further than anything seen before. That was the prevailing view of 10 leading technologists and tech policy experts in a discussion on Dec. 4 at the DealBook Summit in New York

Panelists:
Jack Clark; Co-Founder and Head of Policy at Anthropic
Ajeya Cotra; Senior Program Officer, Potential Risks From Advanced A.I. at Open Philanthropy
Sarah Guo; Founder and Managing Partner at Conviction
Dan Hendrycks; Director of the Center for A.I. Safety
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby; Co-Founder and General Partner at Blue Tulip Ventures
Eugenia Kuyda; Founder and C.E.O. of Replika
Peter Lee; President of Microsoft Research at Microsoft
Marc Raibert; Executive Director of The AI Institute and Founder of Boston Dynamics
Josh Woodward; Vice President of Google Labs
Tim Wu; The Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School; Former Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy

Moderator:
Kevin Roose; Tech Columnist and Co-Host of the “Hard Fork” Podcast at The New York Times