Commentary
The summit may be remembered as a fatal blunder, when Washington, Beijing, and the AI industry collectively chose ceremony over action.
Jeffrey Prescott
Research
Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives
The AI community is at risk of becoming polarized to either take a laissez-faire attitude toward AI development, or to call for government overregulation.
By Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, Jeff Dean, Finale Doshi-Velez, John Hennessy, Andy Konwinski, Sanmi Koyejo, Pelonomi Moiloa, Emma Pierson, David Patterson
Published on Dec 3, 2024
About the Authors
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Former Carnegie President (2021-2026)
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar was previously the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies, and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Jeff Dean
Finale Doshi-Velez
John Hennessy
Andy Konwinski
Sanmi Koyejo
Pelonomi Moiloa
Emma Pierson
David Patterson
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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