The Great Tech War Panel 2: Regulating the Internet

Описание: THE GREAT TECH WAR:
Can We Optimize Innovation, Regulate AI, Protect Children and Address Social Media Content at the Same Time?

Join the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center (Center) and George Mason University’s (GMU) Center for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC), Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), the Donald G. Costello College of Business, and a host of experts for a pivotal discussion on the urgent challenges of AI and internet governance.

Our expert panel will delve into the dynamic landscape of AI regulation, exploring recent state and federal initiatives, including those in New York and California. We'll examine the operational policies of the current administration, the progression toward Artificial General Intelligence, and the critical need for governance to ensure human oversight. The discussion will also cover national security concerns, the hypothetical point of singularity, and the complex issues of AI and intellectual property.

In the second half of the summit, we will shift focus to the ongoing debate over internet content and the protection of children. Our panel will analyze recent state-level actions on social media, including age verification, parental consent, and design standards. We will also discuss legal challenges to content moderation policies and the use of deepfakes in elections, as well as how U.S. policy is influenced by international actions on internet speech.

This event is a must-attend for anyone interested in the future of technology, policy, and society.

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The Great Tech War:
Can We Optimize Innovation, Regulate AI, Protect Children and Address Social Media Content at the Same Time?

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Jean-Pierre Auffret
Director, Research Partnerships, Costello College of Business, George Mason University; Director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), College of Engineering & Computing, George Mason University

Thomas P. Vartanian
Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center®
Author, 200 Years of American Financial Panics, Crashes, Recessions and Depressions, And the Technology That Will Change It All; The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse

Robert H. Ledig
Managing Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center®

Agenda:

9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Welcome and Overview

Co-Chairs

9:10 – 10:30 a.m. Regulating AI

Lena Cohen – Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Peyton Hornberger – Communications Director, The Alliance for Secure AI
Tommy Jones – Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business; Chief Scientist, Foundation
Jess Miers – Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law
Gary Rinkerman – Honorary Professor of US Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University School of Law, London; Partner, Pierson Ferdinand

10:30 – 10:40 a.m. Audience Questions

10:40 – 10:50 a.m. Break

10:50 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Regulating the Internet

Ari Cohn – Lead Counsel, Tech Policy, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
Mary Anne Franks – Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law, George Washington University Law School
Justin (Gus) Hurwitz – Senior Fellow; Academic Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, University of Pennsylvania, Penn Carey Law
Ryan Proctor – Consovoy McCarthy PLLC; previously Judicial Law Clerk, Justice Clarence Thomas
Paul Taske – Co-Director NetChoice Litigation Center

12:00 - 12:15 p.m. Audience Questions

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