How Will GenAI Impact Free Speech & Access to Information?
Panelists:
Neil Chilson, Head of AI, The Abundance Institute
Sarah Shirazyan, Director, GenAI Policy, Meta, Inc.; Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law
Moderator:
David Sullivan, Executive Director, Digital Trust & Safety Partnership
Neil Chilson is the Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, where he works to restore optimism and sense of adventure to U.S. cultural and policy discussions about technology. Neil is a lawyer, computer scientist, and author of the book “Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World.” He is the first known human to file AI-generated comments on behalf of AI bots in a federal regulatory proceeding. Neil previously led technology policy and related grant-making efforts at philanthropic community Stand Together. Neil served as the Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, where he focused on the economics of privacy and blockchain-related issues.
Dr. Sarah Shirayzan is the Director and Head of GenAI Policy at Meta and a Lecturer at Stanford Law School. In her role at Meta, Dr. Shirayzan leads the development of policies and standards for Generative AI products, with a focus on mitigating trust and safety risks. At Meta, she previously managed a global team that collaborated with academics, civil society, and advertisers to shape the company’s policies on misinformation, and algorithmic ranking.
Anupam Chander is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown. In 2023-24, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University and Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. A Harvard College and Yale Law graduate, he is the author of The Electronic Silk Road, published by Yale University Press and co-editor of Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State published by Oxford University Press.
David Sullivan is the founding Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, where he leads a unique initiative focused on promoting a safer and more trustworthy internet. An experienced human rights and technology policy practitioner, he brings together unlikely allies to solve global challenges related to rights, security, and democracy in the digital age. Most recently, David served as Program Director at the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a unique collaboration between leading technology companies and human rights groups to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy rights online.