The future of AI from one of the world’s leading AI researchers. In this special episode, Host Tammy Haddad interviews Joelle Pineau, Meta’s vice president of AI research, at the inaugural TGAIFriday lunch on Friday, April 26th to kick off the 2024 White House Correspondents weekend. The Washington AI Network took over the House at 1229 to showcase Meta's latest AI technologies, including the Quest 3, mixed reality VR headset, Spotty, the AI-powered robot dog, and the Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses. 

All eyes are on the 2024 election and global concerns about the impact of AI are rampant, especially with deep fakes and disinformation campaigns from hostile governments and nefarious actors. In this special episode, host Tammy Haddad interviews two of the nation’s leading forces for safety and security in elections, Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Joined by UVA’s Kyle Kondik, this conversation was recorded on Friday, April 5 with a live audience at the 25th anniversary celebration of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. A special collaboration with the Center’s Politics Is Everything podcast.

With the seemingly limitless capabilities of artificial intelligence, national security experts, technologists, and academicians are sounding the alarm on the potential havoc AI could wreak in the hands of bad actors. In the midst of this new technological arms race with China, organizations like the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) are calling for the U.S. to maintain its innovation and information dominance to protect American citizens. In this episode, host Tammy Haddad interviews Ylli Bajraktari, president & CEO of the SCSP and former executive director of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) on putting AI and emerging tech at the center of the United States’ national competitiveness. 

Known for her “red chair” interviews with tech’s biggest players, Kara Swisher’s commitment to ask tough questions has made her Silicon Valley’s most respected and most feared journalist. In this special episode, we turn the tables and open the mic for members and friends of the Washington AI Network to “Ask Kara Anything.” Host Tammy Haddad interviews Swisher at the House at 1229 in Washington, DC, following the release of her new book, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story. Kara brings her sharp wit and deep knowledge of the tech industry. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a policy wonk, or simply curious about which tech company she would pick to run, this is one episode you don’t want to miss.

From the halls of Congress and state legislatures to local communities and everywhere in between, all eyes are on AI and the future of the innovation economy. Host Tammy Haddad interviews Linda Moore, president and CEO of TechNet, a national, bipartisan network of technology CEOs and senior executives that promotes the growth of the innovation economy. In this episode, Moore discusses the “AI for America” education initiative, as well as how to develop policy to foster the use and growth of AI responsibly and to promote and protect the United States’ position as the world leader in innovation.

As the U.S. Congress weighs legislation for artificial intelligence, we hear directly from two of the leading U.S. House members. Host Tammy Haddad interviews Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23), an expert computer scientist and vice chair of the House AI Caucus, and Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-CA-15), a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology representing Silicon Valley. Obernolte calls for watermarking authentic materials instead of AI-generated content, and they both share concerns for combating deep fakes and misinformation in elections, safeguarding Americans without stifling innovation, and protecting content creators, touching on the New York Times’ recent copyright infringement lawsuit against ChatGPT.

On the heels of President Biden’s AI executive order, federal agencies are scrambling to identify 400 AI leads to shepherd government into tech’s largest frontier. Host Tammy Haddad interviews Arun Gupta, a longtime venture capitalist investor, author, and adjunct professor at Georgetown and Stanford, on how government can lead on AI by bridging the tech talent gap. Arun is the CEO of the NobleReach Foundation and co-author of a new book, Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society. 

While ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) are making headlines, the federal government and the U.S. military have been leveraging AI for years to support the mission. Host Tammy Haddad interviews Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), who is one of the Pentagon’s top leaders in AI. In this episode, VADM Whitworth discusses how NGA uses AI “from the seabed to space” in national security, intelligence, warfare, competition with China, and the promise of advanced AI models that can analyze visual data. 

As technologists and policymakers convene in Washington at the Axios AI+ Summit, host Tammy Haddad interviews Ina Fried, Axios’ chief technology correspondent and co-author of the daily Axios AI+ newsletter. Fried takes us inside the summit, breaking down newsworthy comments from Eric Schmidt and DHS Secretary Alejando Mayorkas, and shares the “craziest hundred hours” of her reporting career following Sam Altman’s ouster from OpenAI and what she sees coming next.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the wars in Ukraine and Israel continue, Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence has teamed up with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Cambridge’s Queen’s College president Mohamed El-Erian to author Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, their new book on how to break down the global “Permacrisis”' of sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global co-operation. One of the most respected economists of our time, Spence walks us through the major economic trends stemming from world-disrupting events and how to tackle the toughest economic challenges ahead and how AI can drive necessary economic growth.