Rob Reich is a professor of political science at Stanford University and a leading voice at the intersection of technology and society. He is the co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot and recently served as a senior advisor at the U.S. AI Safety Institute.

Rob joined Var Shankar to discuss:

• The shifting landscape of AI governance federally and in the states
• Why governments are increasingly concerned with national security risks from frontier models
• How to involve civil society in setting technical standards for AI
• What a "mature ecosystem" of independent AI evaluators would look like
• How to help younger people navigate the AI age