Open Source AI: Balancing Innovation and Safety in AI Policy with Dr. Elizabeth Seger (BKC / AISST AI Governance Speaker Series)
November 15, 2024
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
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Berkman Klein Multipurpose Room (Room 515)
1557 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Join the Berkman Klein Center and the AI Safety Student Team for a speaker series on AI governance! Free lunch will be provided, RSVP here 🙂
About the Event
Dr. Elizabeth Seger explores the rapidly evolving landscape of open-source AI, tracing how the discourse has shifted dramatically in recent years. This talk will highlight emerging areas of consensus, persistent tensions, and critical open questions that continue to shape the debate around AI openness.
Join us for a nuanced exploration of the complex trade-offs between innovation, safety, and accessibility in AI development. Free lunch will be provided.
About the Speaker
| Elizabeth is Director of CASM, Demos’ digital policy research hub.
Previously, Elizabeth worked as a policy researcher at the Centre for the Governance of AI in Oxford where she led projects on open-source model sharing strategy and the democratisation of AI. Her work is internationally recognized, helping set the stage for international debates on AI policy including with OECD working group on AI and around the UK’s AI Safety Summit and the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Safe and Trustworthy AI. Elizabeth holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Cambridge, where she remains a research affiliate with the AI:Future and Responsibility (AI:FAR) project investigating the impacts of AI on information environments and democratic processes. Event Co-Sponsors: Harvard Law AI Student Association, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology |