Ai and Democratic Values Roundtable

Welcome Note           
Merve Hickok, President, CAIDP

 Special Remarks “Advancing AI Guardrails in the United States” 
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator for Connecticut

Keynote Remarks “AI Alignment, Human Values, AI Risk, and Global Governance”

Stuart Russell, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

The 2025 AI and Democratic Values Index (AIDV)

April Yoder, AIDV, Editor-in-Chief

Grace Thomson, CAIDP Clinic Director

Caroline Friedman Levy, CAIDP Fellow

AI and Democratic Values  Panel Discussion

Moderators: April Yoder and Julian Theseira, CAIDP Fellow and Policy Group Coordinator

Virgnia Dignum, Director, AI Policy Lab, Umea University, Sweden
Chinasa Okolo, Fellow, Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings 
Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School 
Dr. Kutoma Wakunuma, Associate Professor Research and Teaching in Information Systems,  De Montfort University, Liecester
Kyoko Yoshinaga,  Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

Coffee

CAIDP AI Policy Leaders Awards and Discussion

Dr. Safiya Noble, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, UCLA; Author -Algorithms of Oppression
Maya Wiley, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Dr. Sasha Luccioni, AI & Climate Lead, Hugging Face
Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, United Nations

Awards introductions: Dr. Lorraine Kissselburgh, Board Member, CAIDP

Moderator: Christabel Randolph, Associate Director, CAIDP

Lunch

Keynote Remarks “Musk, DOGE, and AI: The Next Steps”

Skye Perryman, President and CEO, Democracy Forward

AI Policy Roundtable

Moderators: Pablo Molina, with Almudena Arpon De Mendivil, Board Members, CAIDP

Segment 1: State of US AI policy

Overview of Federal AI Policy

Adam Billen, Vice President of Public Policy, Encode

Overview of State Actions

August Gweon, Associate, Covington & Burling

Segment 2:  Baseline safeguards to address AI fairness and AI safety - Where we are, what must we ensure

Democratic Challenges                   

Spencer Overton, Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law, George Washington University

Agustin (Gus) Rossi Silvano, Director -Programs, Omidyar Network

AI Safety 

Benjamin Prud’Homme, Vice President, Policy, Safety and Global Affairs, Leadership Team, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

AI Fairness 

Nicole Turner Lee, Director – Center for Technology Innovation, Senior Fellow – Governance Studies, Brookings 

Ed Santow, Director - Policy & Governance Human Technology Institute, Ex- Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission

Safeguards for Privacy 

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor of Practice, Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Lee Tiedrich, OECD AI Expert, Senior AI Advisor NIST

Safeguards for Workforce

Cecilia Marrinan, AI Policy Researcher, Kapor Foundation

Thea Lee, Ex-Deputy Undersecretary, Dept. of Labor, United States

Segment 3:  Transatlantic AI policy

EU AI Act and implications for US Policy

Kat Duffy, Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Almudena Arpon, CAIDP Board Member, Immediate Past-President, International Bar Association

Open discussion

Closing Remarks                              

Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, CAIDP

Cocktail hour