10 June 2021
The Responsible AI Forum
At Waddesdon
with thanks to
Hosted by Lord Rothschild and organised by Tortoise Media, the Responsible AI Forum convened the world’s best-known figures from the business and academic worlds to lead the discussion on the development, deployment and communication of AI as a responsible technology for society and government.
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Programme
- Agenda
- Participants
Co-chairs
Speakers
Tortoise
9.30-9.35am BST
Welcome by Jacob Rothschild, Alexandra Mousavizadeh and James Harding.
9.35-9.45am
The Agenda of the Responsible AI Forum
Rashmy Chatterjee, CEO, ISTARI and Siraj Khaliq, Investment Partner, Atomico
9.45-10.30am
The AI Opportunity
Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp. in conversation with James Harding, Co-Founder, Tortoise Media
Part one
10.30–11.30am
Smart machines for the public good: how will AI improve health, education and prosperity?
Our ambition is to foster innovation in AI technologies and accelerate its use across industry. What can AI offer humanity by 2030? What breakthroughs can we expect over the coming decade and in what order? Can we lay out the roadmap for an AI future?
Speakers: Jacomo Corbo, Chief Scientist and co-founder of QuantumBlack; Michael Zeller, Head of AI Strategy, Temasek; Sana Kharaghani, Director of the Office for AI, UK Government
Moderator: Tabitha Goldstaub, Co-founder, CognitionX and Chair, UK Government’s AI Council
11.45–12.45pm
The next economic model: how will AI distribute the gains?
AI promises efficiency gains and economic growth but will its benefits accrue to only those with skills and capital? Will clusters of AI excellence widen divides between and within nations? Can we lay the groundwork to avoid widening inequality in the future?
Speakers: Azeem Azhar, founder, Exponential View; Daniel Susskind, economist and author; Carys Roberts, Executive Chair, IPPR
Moderator: James Harding, Co-Founder, Tortoise
12.45–2pm
Lunch at Windmill Hill, Waddesdon hosted by Jacob Rothschild
Part two
2–2.45pm
Capital ideas: investor priorities in AI
From AI operating systems for self-driving cars to self-learning language processing platforms, artificial intelligence truly spans all industry sectors. With the potential to disrupt so many areas, venture capital firms are jumping on the bandwagon to fund the brains behind the projects, getting themselves ahead of the curve. What is the blueprint for AI investment success ?
Speakers: Matt Ocko, Co-founder and Managing Partner, DCVC; Janet Bannister, Managing Partner, Real Ventures; Ash Fontana, author of The AI-First Company & Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners; Peter Barrett, Founder & General Partner, Playground Global
Moderator: Siraj Khaliq, Investment Partner, Atomico, Freshfields Partner
2.45-3.45pm
The geo-politics of the intelligence complex: AI, cyber and global security
AI will bring advances in almost every sector of life, such that AI dominance has become a defining objective of the worlds’ biggest powers in a race for geopolitical influence and power. New digital empires are forming and techo-colonialism is on the rise. The issues in question range from AI-driven information warfare to autonomous weapons, from AI-powered cyber-operations through to AI-driven surveillance. Geopolitics will become rife with many thorny AI issues to circumnavigate. How is AI redefining power between states and between the state and the private sector? How should the international community collaborate and respond to the ethical issues AI is raising? And what is the end point of the international AI race?
Speakers: Sir John Sawers, former head of MI6; Tom Glocer, founder, BlueVoyant; Stuart Russell, Prof. Computer Science, Berkeley; Tom Hurd, Former Director General, Office of Security & Counter Terrorism, Home Office
Moderator: Rashmy Chatterjee, CEO, ISTARI
3.45-4pm
Coffee break
4-4.45pm
The rules: can AI be regulated?
It’s a tale as old as capitalism itself. Big business argues that strict regulations will stifle innovation and give an edge to international competitors, but calls for regulation to protect the public are increasing. With reports of AI ethics violations on the rise, it looks like the scales are starting to tip against those arguing against tougher regulations. But what regulations, and who decides?
Speakers: Liz Grennan, Global Managing Council, McKinsey; Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Danish Prime Minister, member of the Facebook Oversight Board; Martin Jetter, Chairman of IBM (EMEA), Chairman of the Board at Deutsche Börse Group; Darko Matovski, CEO, causaLens
Moderator: James Harding, Co-Founder, Tortoise
4.45-5.30pm
Demis Hassabis, CEO, DeepMind in conversation with James Harding
5.30-6pm
Jack Clark, Policy Director, ONEAI OECD & writer importAI, in conversation with James Harding
6-6.15pm
Editorial wrap up with James Harding
6.15-6.45pm
Drinks Reception at The Dairy
6.45pm
Waddesdon Dinner at The Dairy
The Forum Leadership
The agenda, content and direction has been shaped in collaboration with our co-chairs and advisory board.
Co-chairs
- Siraj Khaliq, Investment Partner, Atomico
- Rashmy Chatterjee, CEO, Istari
The Advisory Board
- Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View
- Jacomo Corbo, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, QuantumBlack
- Sana Khareghani, Head of UK Government’s Office for AI
- Marc Etienne Ouimette, Global Lead, AI Policy, Amazon AWS
- Stuart Russell, Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, Berkeley
The Rothschild Foundation
- Lord Jacob Rothschild
TORTOISE MEDIA
- James Harding, Co-founder and Editor
- Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Director, Tortoise Intelligence
The Tortoise AI Network
We anticipate up to 150 participants will join us for the Forum, 30 of whom will join us on-site at Waddesdon. Attendees will largely be made up of members of the Tortoise AI Network, our global community of business leaders, academic experts, and policy makers that meets monthly to take part in cutting-edge conversations on the latest developments in AI, fuelled by data from the Global AI Index.
Our members include:
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