Governance in the Age of AI: A Radical Blueprint for Radical Technologies, with Author & Investor Eric Ries (Virtual)
It’s a popular concern that conventional “share-holder primacy” governance is catastrophic for stewarding AI labs and LLMs. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Cohere, and Palantir have all established some form of alternative oversight or voting power as a guardrail.
Yet, every day in Silicon Valley, new AI startups are formed and funded the old way, without any such guardrails or checks. Is this potentially a time bomb? Do startups need a new governance template for the new age?
Join us for a fireside chat with author and investor Eric Ries (NYTimes Bestselling author of The Lean Startup) for a discussion on this compelling dilemma. Eric’s new book, Incorruptible, examines what it actually takes to grow profit and make a positive impact — and why so many companies fail to resist the “financial gravity” of Wall Street pressures.
Eric and moderator Po Bronson (General Partner at SOSV) will dig into Eric’s blueprint for how startups can prosper and endure without losing their soul:
How to think through AI development from day 0 & what founders building in AI should do differently
How to stay mission-driven as your cap table grows & the pressure for revenue mounts
The role of governance in protecting against a mindset shift in the investor stack that all too commonly backfires
📍 Broadcast live from our SOSV SF event space, this is the next installment of SOSV Deep Tech LIVE, our video podcast series exploring the frontiers of deep tech with leading founders, researchers, and technologists.