Today at 1pm-2pm: Agentic AI and the Invisible Hand: Implications for Human Dignity and Community?
“Agentic AI and the Invisible Hand 2.0: Implications for Innovation, Dignity and Community ”
Stanford Center for Academic Medicine, Room 460
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Wedn Dec 10th, 1pm-2pm
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MIT-Stanford Round Table (with the NANDA at MIT)
On the 250th Anniversary of Adam Smith’s, “Wealth of Nations,” which introduced the concept of the Invisible Hand of the market, we invite you to join us for an inter-disciplinary discussion of AI’s implications for human well-being across three domains.
1. Innovation: What can we learn from the principles of Adam Smith and the experience of the Industrial Revolution? Under what conditions could AI agents promote or limit innovation?
2. Dignity: Might agentic AI replace skills, jobs, and/or sectors? What are the consequent implications for human agency and dignity? For human health and welfare?
3. Community: How might agentic AI enhance or impair meaningful entrusted relationships, at the level of individuals and communities? For economic systems? For a shared, civic purpose?
Panelists
Lee Sanders, Prof Stanford
https://profiles.stanford.edu/lee-sanders
Ramesh Raskar, Prof MIT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raskar
Bio
Lee M. Sanders is a Stanford professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy and Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, with additional roles in Stanford Health Policy and Epidemiology and Population Health that connect clinical care, policy, and design education.
Sanders is a national leader in using artificial intelligence and human‑centered design to advance health equity rather than exacerbate disparities, directing research programs that build AI‑driven tools for early‑childhood obesity prevention, complex-care coordination, and measurement of children’s language and relationship environments. Through federally funded studies and advisory work with agencies like NIH, CDC, and FDA, he advocates for literacy‑informed, community‑engaged AI systems and responsible governance of health technologies that shape outcomes for vulnerable children and families.
Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT, leading pioneering research at the intersection of distributed AI agent architectures, health technology, and computational imaging. As a founding architect of NANDA, he focuses on agentic web infrastructure that empowers decentralized decision-making in complex systems. He received the National Academy of Inventors award (2024), Lemelson Award (2016) and ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X], Apple and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies. He holds 100+ US patents.
NANDA (Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture) which originated at MIT provides the three-phase technical roadmap to capture this opportunity: Agent Foundations, Agent Economy and Agent Societies. Project Nanda aims to dismantle the four critical choke points within this ecosystem's infrastructure by focusing on consensus driven innovation: 'DNS', 'CA', 'Orchestration', and 'Attestation'.
NANDA employs a three-pronged approach: (i) Technology: Building technology, standards, and reference implementations through a collective of top minds. (ii) Social Mission: Working to maintain an open Agentic Web for innovators while ensuring safety for vulnerable populations. (iii) Venture Ecosystem: Fostering a wide coalition of founders and investors to facilitate information sharing.
NANDA's development draws on proven MIT research in AutoML, split learning, privacy-preserving architectures, and decentralized coordination. Early partners in the coalition gain preferential access to emerging standards, reference implementations, and the academic-industry consortium that will influence the emerging frameworks globally.
Join us for an intimate discussion on the future of the agentic web and the opportunities for tech leaders.
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