Join Alan Raul (Harvard College ’75\, HKS MPA ’77) and Justin Curl (HLS ’26) for a discussion of the Trump Administra tion's central AI policy document: AI Action Plan. We will begin with an ov erview of the AI Action Plan's key parts before opening up to a broader con versation discussing the plan's implementation\, comparing it to China's eq uivalent\, and thinking through the theories of AI progress that it reflect s.
In-person on HLS campus\, Lewis Law Center\, 5th floor.
Open to all Harvard ID card holders. Lunch will be served.
Alan Raul (Harvard College ’75\, HKS MPA ’77) is a BKC Affiliate and Lecturer at Harvard Law School\, where he teaches courses on digital governance\, privacy\, and AI regulation. He is Board Chair and Pr esident of the Future of Privacy Forum and previously founded and led Sidle y Austin LLP’s global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice for more than twen ty-five years. Alan has served as Vice Chairman of the federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board\, General Counsel at the Office of Manageme nt and Budget\, and Associate Counsel to the President. He has worked exten sively with technology companies on AI governance\, regulatory enforcement\ , and cyber crisis management\, and his writing appears regularly in leadin g national publications.
Justin Curl (HLS ’26) is a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation on its AI grantmaking strategy a nd a 3L at Harvard Law School. As the Tech Law & Policy Advisor to the New Mexico Attorney General\, he wrote deepfake and data privacy legislation\, briefed state legislators\, and assisted with child safety lawsuits that we re featured in the NYTimes and WSJ. He earned a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar and graduated magn a cum laude with a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University\, w here Arvind Narayanan was his thesis advisor.
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