Windows on the World: Dave and Helen Edwards
| 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Anthony Scriffignano: Distinguished Fellow and member, Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council, The Stimson Center
“Stay Human: Authoring Your Mind in the AI Age”
Most of us use AI every day now, but few of us notice how it's changing the way we think. Helen and Dave Edwards share what their research shows about how people adapt to working with AI, and what it takes to stay the author of your own mind.
Helen and Dave Edwards are co-founders of the Artificiality Institute, a nonprofit research organization that studies what AI does to human minds, relationships and identity. The Edwards are also both Visiting Researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI. Helen sits on the external advisory board of ARIA, the NSF AI Institute at Brown University. She also serves as a Commissioner on Oregon's Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Earlier in her career she was CIO of Transpower, New Zealand's national grid operator, and an executive at PG&E. Dave co-runs the annual Artificiality Summit in Bend, Oregon, and co-wrote Make Better Decisions with Helen. Before the Institute, Dave led software application product marketing at Apple, with products like Keynote, GarageBand and Final Cut Pro, and was a lead technology research analyst at Morgan Stanley covering the internet and cleantech.