#35: Jake Taylor and Alan Ho on Social Media and AI

AI Asia Pacific Institute Podcast

"We believe that working from the perspective of harms, rather than risks, and developing pathways where humans grapple with the challenges of technology as they deploy have been and will be a path for enabling good from these new technologies" — Jake Taylor and Alan Ho

Jake Taylor has been doing research in quantum information science and quantum computing for the past two decades, most recently at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In addition to his research, he spent the last three years as the first Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he led the creation and implementation of the National Quantum Initiative (quantum.gov) and the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium (covid19-hpc-consortium.org). Now taking a year as a TAPP Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Jake is looking at how lessons learned in implementing science and tech policy for an emerging field can enable public purpose in other areas. He is the author of more than 150 peer reviewed scientific articles, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, and recipient of the Silver and Gold medals from the Department of Commerce. He can be found on twitter @quantum_jake and at https://www.quantumjake.org.

Alan Ho is a life-long engineer and entrepreneur. He has worked at a number of large and small technology companies that deployed artificial intelligence in their products. He is currently the product management lead at Google’s Quantum AI team. His responsibilities include the identification of applications of quantum computing that can benefit society.

You can find the article mentioned in the conversation 'Identifying and Reducing Harms: a Look at Artificial Intelligence' here.

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