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Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives
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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. 

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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
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Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar

President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is 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.

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Finale Doshi-Velez

John Hennessy

Andy Konwinski

Sanmi Koyejo

Pelonomi Moiloa

Emma Pierson

David Patterson

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Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
Jeff Dean
Finale Doshi-Velez
John Hennessy
Andy Konwinski
Sanmi Koyejo
Pelonomi Moiloa
Emma Pierson
David Patterson
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