One of the top AI researchers, Joelle Pineau, VP of AI Research at Meta and featured guest for the inaugural TGAIFriday Lunch, attended her first White House Correspondents’ Weekend. She was joined at the Garden Brunch by former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, founder of the Special Competitive Studies Project (which will host Washington’s first AI Expo for National Competitiveness on May 7-8).

Other AI luminaries included NobleReach Foundation CEO Arun Gupta; Teresa Carlson, President of the General Catalyst Institute; EqualAI President & CEO Miriam Vogel; OpenAI’s Brad Lightcap, whom Bloomberg calls “AI’s secret weapon”; David Ginsberg, VP of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Meta; David Zapolsky, General Counsel of Amazon; John Rizzo of NVIDIA; and Center for AI Safety Action Fund Director of Government Relations and Public Policy Varun Krovi. From the U.S. Government: Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Chief of Staff Asad Ramzanali and Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, as well as Rep. Don Beyer, co-chair of the House AI Caucus, and Senator Mark Warner.

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