Navigating Public Policy in an AI-Enabled Future

Learn how Dr. Jason Matheny, CEO of the RAND Coporation, and his team of researchers seek to make the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous providing insights on advanced technology to policymakers. Dr. Matheny will sit down with Scale CEO and Co-Founder Alexandr Wang to discuss many of the urgent challenges facing AI, healthcare, and public policy today. They discuss advances in synthetic biology and AI, including DeepMind's AlphaFold, have an enormous upside potential for medicine, but also pose a threat because it makes this technology more available for bad actors. Dr. Methany will also cover large language models and code generation tools, and how they will make developers and governments more efficient and more capable. He will also talk about whether AI’s offensive or defensive capabilities are more advantageous, and why public sector adoption of machine learning capabilities is so important. Other topics he will cover include how to ensure the US is a desirable destination for STEM talent including AI researchers, and how private sector technologists can provide value to policymakers to better understand technology and make more informed policy decisions. Dr. Matheny has served as Deputy Director of National Security, in other senior roles in the security field, and in various capacities in the healthcare industry.