European Delegation Webinar: Building and Governing the AI Frontier

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The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence would like to share this upcoming webinar organized by the European Union Office in San Francisco in the framework of Brussels to the Bay.

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Join the European Union Office in San Francisco on October 3 for a Brussels to the Bay event on "Building and Governing the AI Frontier"! This event will feature a discussion on AI infrastructure investment strategies, evolving governance regimes and how they interact, as well as a special session on the EU AI Strategy and the Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI Models.

Date: Friday, October 3rd

Time: 9:30 -11:30 PM Pacific (12:30 PM - 2:30 PM ET)

Location: EU Office in SF & online

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Admission and format: Free with registration (in-person and online)

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Schedule:

9:30 – 9:40 AM: Opening Remarks

9:45 – 9:55 AM: Presentation - The EU AI Strategy and the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

10:00 – 11:15 AM: Panel Discussion - Building and Governing the AI Frontier with Q&A

Special Session – The EU AI Strategy and the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

Join us for a special session on the EU AI Strategy and the AI Act Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI Models, featuring Lauro Langosco from the EU AI Office. This info session will provide participants with a practical, accessible overview of the Code of Practice, and discuss some of its complexities to unpack its implications.

Presenter:

Lauro Langosco, Technology Specialist, European Commission's AI Office
Lauro is working in the unit that enforces the AI Act's frontier AI rules. He contributed to the Commission guidelines on GPAI and now works on the implementation of the Code of Practice. Previously, he worked on AI safety and the science of deep learning as ML PhD student at the University of Cambridge.

Panel Discussion – Building and Governing the AI Frontier

As AI enters a new era of explosive growth, two major forces shape its trajectory: the massive investments in infrastructure and innovation needed to build long-term technological leadership, and the governance frameworks designed to ensure safety, trust, and accountability. Both in the EU and the US, public and private entities are making enormous investments aimed at building up an AI infrastructure backbone and empowering start-ups, researchers, and applied innovation. Simultaneously, whether and how frontier AI models should be governed is at the forefront of today’s policy debates. In the EU, the AI Act’s Code of Practice offers a toolkit to clarify obligations for frontier models on the European market, while in California, legislative discussions spark broader conversations about the intersection of governance, safety, and security.

The Panel Discussion will bring together multiple perspectives to explore the opportunities and challenges of building and governing AI at scale. What infrastructure investment strategies are we seeing and do they interact with evolving governance regimes? Where is there scope for transatlantic cooperation on both innovation and oversight? And how can alignment between various stakeholders foster a secure, more competitive, and globally connected AI ecosystem?

Speakers:

· Gerard de Graaf, Head of EU Office in San Francisco

Senior Envoy for Digital to the U.S. and head of the EU office in San Francisco Senior Envoy for Digital to the U.S. and Head of the new EU Office in San Francisco as of 1 September, 2022, Gerard de Graaf has worked for more than 30 years in the European Commission across a wide range of policy areas. Until his recent appointment, he was director in DG CNECT, responsible inter alia for the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts(DSA/DMA), two landmark pieces of legislation which have been recently adopted in the European Union to keep the Internet safe, protect fundamental rights and enhance competition in digital markets.

· Yoshua Bengio, Founder of Mila - Quebec AI Institute, EU AI Act Code of Practice Chair

Recognised worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO. Yoshua also served as a Chair for the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI Models.

· Rishi Bommasani, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, EU AI Act Code of Practice Vice-Chair

Rishi Bommasani is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), where he researches the societal and economic impact of AI. His research has won multiple paper awards and has been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He is the lead researcher on the annual Stanford Foundation Model Transparency Index, lead author of the California Report on Frontier AI Policy, a Vice Chair of the EU AI Act's Code of Practice, and an author of the International Scientific Report of AI.

· Isabel Hahn [Moderator], Policy Officer at EU Office in San Francisco
Isabel Hahn is responsible for AI Policy at the EU Mission to the US in the San Francisco office. Isabel advises on the EU’s AI strategy, AI governance, and policy and regulatory developments. Isabel also sits as a part of the AI Office at the European Commission. Prior to joining the EU Mission to the US, Isabel served as Member of Cabinet at the European Data Protection Supervisor, the EU’s privacy regulator. Isabel holds law degrees from Harvard Law School and the London School of Economics. She is a licensed Attorney at Law in the State of New York and San Francisco Chapter Lead for the Harvard Women in Defense, Diplomacy and Development alumni organization

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Funded by the European Union