Who Will Tame the Bots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence with Adam Thierer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have reentered our public discourse due to some fascinating new applications, yet AI’s role in these areas has also made many question the moral place of AI and its implications on our culture beyond these applications. We’ll be discussing these topics and more with one of the foremost experts on AI and tech regulation, Adam Thierer.

Adam is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute for the Technology & Innovation team. He works at the intersection of tech, regulation, and the long term sustainability of our civic institutions. Prior to R Street, Adam spent 12 years as a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Before the Mercatus Center, he served as the president of the Progress and Freedom Foundation. Adam has also worked for the Adam Smith Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Adam has published 10 books on a wide range of topics, including online child safety, internet governance, intellectual property, telecommunications policy, media regulation and federalism. Adam has a master’s degree in international business management and a bachelor’s degree with a double major in political science and journalism.

You can follow Adam’s work at RStreet.org and on Twitter.

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