March 28, 2025

The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies: Part 1

40 minutes

Welcome to a very different episode of Siliconsciousness. Today, we are taking a creative new approach to discussing the future of AI. This episode comprises the first part of our special event, “The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies”. The event, co-hosted by MIT Technology Review, brings together some of the leading voices in AI policy from the public and private sectors to role-play these complex issues. These AI leaders play roles in the US, China, and The EU, and enact policies that best align with their roles interests in the AI space. This first episode contains the first phase of the game, as well as introductions from the editor in chief of MIT Technology Review Mat Honan as well as game controller Ed McGrady. We hope you enjoy.

Our Players:

US Government Players

Doug Calidas, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)

Stephen Ezell, Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation

Vivek Wadhwa, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley

Susan Ariel Aaronson, American author, public speaker, and GWU professor

Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Anupam Chander, Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center

David Mussington, professor of the practice the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and currently serves as the CISA Executive Assistant Director

Cameron Kelly, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institutution

China players

Rohit Talwar, founder of FastFuture

Daniel Richardson, President of Indepth Global AI

Sarah Myers West, co-director at AI Now

David Lin, Senior Director for Future Technology Platforms at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

European Union

Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Institute

Gordon LaForge, senior policy analyst at New America

Michelle Nie, EU Tech Policy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute

David Goldston, Director MIT Washington Office

Rumman Chowdhury, scientist, entrepreneur, and former responsible artificial intelligence lead at Accenture

Civil Society

Cody Buntain, Assistant Professor; Affiliate Fellow, UMD Honors College – Artificial Intelligence Cluster

Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College Of Information Systems And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Maryland College Park

David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council

Kahaan Mehta, Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

Universities and academia

Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law

Anand Patwardhan, professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher at MIT Technology Review

Emily M. Bender, University of Washington Professor

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