CIP Hosts: Where are the public visions for AI?

​Where are the public visions for AI?

​Everyone agrees that AI is going to transform society, but there is a strange lack of a concrete public vision for what that transformation should look like. While civil society groups work to articulate public goals for AI and big tech firms push their own narratives, no shared vision has taken hold. This talk explores why that is, what we can learn from past moments when society actively shaped the trajectory of new technologies, and what a meaningful public vision for AI might look like.

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A little about our speaker for the evening

​Brandon Jackson is a Product Lead at Metagov, where he makes the case for AI as a form of public infrastructure. Originally trained as a historian of technology at Cambridge, he combines this perspective with ten years of experience as a product manager to develop policy proposals for AI in the public interest. He was lead author of the Public AI Network’s white paper calling for Public AI and has proposed a British AI Corporation modeled on the BBC.