Haippy Hour Welcomes NAIAC Members to Washington

Leading experts in artificial intelligence convened in Washington this week for a meeting of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC). Following the committee’s Wednesday gathering, NAIAC chair and Equal AI CEO Miriam Vogel, Washington AI Network founder Tammy Haddad, and General Catalyst advisor Teresa Carlson co-hosted a Haippy Hour for NAIAC members and AI friends at the House at 1229. 

Vogel, Carlson, and Haddad welcomed guests and congratulated Elham Tabassi, the chief AI advisor for NIST, on her new role as chief technology officer of the U.S. AI Safety Institute. 

NAIAC members in attendance were Miami’s Assistant Chief of Police Armando Aguilar; NVIDIA’s Vice President and head of worldwide AI Keith Strier; Anthony Bak from Palantir; Professor Jane Bambauer of the University of Florida School of Law; Professor David Danks of UC San Diego; Professor Jennifer Eberhardt of Stanford University; Professor Jon Kleinberg of Cornell University; Professor Fred Oswald of Rice University; Reggie Townsend, vice president of data ethics at SAS; Trooper Sanders, CEO of Benefits Data Trust; Haniyeh Mahmoudian, Global AI Ethicist, DataRobot, Inc.; Benji Hutchinson, chief revenue officer, Rank One Computing; Janet Haven from the Data & Society Research Institute; Christina Montgomery, chief privacy and trust officer at IBM; Victoria Espinel, president and CEO of BSA | The Software Alliance; and the EU’s tech policy advisor Deniz Houston.

Guests included Senator Chuck Schumer’s policy director Jon Cardinal and AI Lead Tim Ryder; Senator Mitt Romney’s chief of staff Liz Johnson; Senator Mark Warner’s chief of staff Elizabeth Falcone; Bryan Doyle, senior advisor to Rep. Dean Phillips; Silverado Policy Accelerator’s executive chairman Dmitri Alperovitch, author of the new book “World on the Brink”; Silverado’s chair and co-founder Maureen Hinman; Tara Rigler and Hina Gir from the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP); the French Embassy’s AI lead Alexandre Mirlesse; Julian Ramirez, the digital advisor at the German Embassy; Varun Krovi from the Center for AI Safety Action Fund; SKDK’s Mariel Saez; and Arun Gupta, founder of the NobleReach Foundation and author of “Venture Meets Mission.”