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What Every Reporter in DC Should Know About AI
What: A briefing and information session for journalists offered by Johns Hopkins University
When: 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, Aug. 9, a half-day session with breakfast. No streaming option.
Where: The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20001
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Please register by Aug. 2 and feel free to share this invitation with share will colleagues who might like to attend: https://washingtondc.jhu.edu/events/what-every-reporter-in-d-c-should-know-about-ai/
Possibilities for artificial intelligence are thrilling, terrifying, and unavoidable. At this free session, Johns Hopkins researchers will get to the heart of the elements of AI that matter most to a DC media audience. In other words, we’ll focus on the intersection of science and policy, and explore topics including:
- What’s on the horizon for AI in health care
- Implications for the power grids and emissions, and what can be done about it
- Inherent risks of AI: What could go wrong and why is it so hard to regulate
- New inequities AI will cause
- What the federal government can learn from the most forward-thinking states and cities
- How the federal government can best support AI
Speakers will include:
- Beth Blauer, who led JHU’s Coronavirus Research Center and advises governments in technology innovation
- Computer vision pioneer Rama Challapa, who is interim co-director of JHU’s Data Science and AI Institute
- Cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura, who is executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute
- Mark Dredze, interim deputy director of JHU’s Data Science and AI Institute known for his work mining big language data to pioneer new applications in public health
- Yury Dvorkin, who studies challenges posed by emerging smart grid technologies
- Suchi Saria,, who uses AI to individualize patient care and save lives
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Please register by Aug. 2 and feel free to share this invitation with share will colleagues who might like to attend: https://washingtondc.jhu.edu/events/what-every-reporter-in-d-c-should-know-about-ai/
CONTACT: Jill Rosen
Cell: 443-547-8805/jrosen@jhu.edu