This Week in AI: A Preview of Disrupt 2024's Stacked AI Panels
Table of Contents
- This Week in AI: A preview of Disrupt 2024's stacked AI panels
- Interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas
- Fireside chat with Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson
- AI Is flooding the web with disinformation
- Panel featuring Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martin, Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imran Ahmed, and UC Berkeley CITRIS Policy Lab founder Brandie Nonnecke.
- AI's legal and ethical minefields
- Panel featuring Cara CEO Jingna Zhang, AI Now Institute co-executive director Sarah Myers West, and ElevenLabs' Aleksandra Pedraszewska.
- Other AI experts
- U.S. AI Safety Institute director Elizabeth Kelly
- California senator Scott Wiener
- Berkeley AI policy hub co-director Jessica Newman
- Luma AI CEO Amit Jain
- Suno CEO Mikey Shulman
- Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava
- Summary
This Week in AI: A preview of Disrupt 2024's stacked AI panels
This week, the TechCrunch crew (including yours truly) is at TC's annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco. We've got a packed lineup of speakers from the AI industry, academia, and policy, so in lieu of my usual op-ed I thought I'd preview some of the great content headed your way.
Interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas
My colleague Devin Coldewey will be interviewing Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas onstage. The AI-powered search engine is riding high, recently hitting 100 million queries served per week — but it's also being sued by News Corp's Dow Jones over what the publisher describes as a “content kleptocracy.”
Fireside chat with Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson
Kirsten Korosec, TC's transportation editor, will chat with Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson in a fireside. Levinson, who has been in the thick of autonomous car technology for a decade, is now preparing the Amazon-owned robotaxi company for its next big adventure — and we'll be reporting on it.
AI Is flooding the web with disinformation
We'll also have a panel on how AI Is flooding the web with disinformation — featuring Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martin, Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imran Ahmed, and UC Berkeley CITRIS Policy Lab founder Brandie Nonnecke. The trio will discuss how, as generative AI tools become more widely available, they're being abused by an array of actors, including state actors, to create deepfakes and sow disinformation.
AI's legal and ethical minefields
And we'll hear from Cara CEO Jingna Zhang, AI Now Institute co-executive director Sarah Myers West, and ElevenLabs' Aleksandra Pedraszewska on AI's legal and ethical minefields. AI's meteoric rise has created new ethical dilemmas and exacerbated old ones, while lawsuits drop left and right. This threatens both new and established AI companies, and the creators and workers whose labor feeds the models. The panel will tackle all of this — and more.
Other AI experts
That's just a sampling of what's on deck this week. Expect appearances from AI experts like U.S. AI Safety Institute director Elizabeth Kelly, California senator Scott Wiener, Berkeley AI policy hub co-director Jessica Newman, Luma AI CEO Amit Jain, Suno CEO Mikey Shulman, and Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava.
Summary
- TechCrunch's Disrupt conference will feature a number of panels and discussions on the topic of AI.
- The conference will feature speakers from the AI industry, academia, and policy.
- Some of the topics that will be discussed include the rise of AI-powered search engines, the ethical implications of AI, and the use of AI to create disinformation.