

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Research and Development Officer, The GovLab The panel will be facilitated by Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer at The Governance Lab. Elisabeth Sylvan, Managing Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.Renée Cummings, Data Activist in Residence at the University of Virginia.Rumman Chowdhury, Director of ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability at Twitter.Jonathan Bowles, Executive Director at the Center for an Urban Future.We will subsequently be joined by the following distinguished guests: The panel will begin with a presentation of the strategy by Neal Parikh, Director of AI, NYC Mayor’s Office of the CTO. Join us as we discuss the strategy and how to move forward to ensure decision-makers accurately identify opportunities and risks pertaining to the deployment of artificial intelligence. On 13 October 2021, the NYC Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer released the New York City Artificial Intelligence Strategy providing city leaders a roadmap to build and leverage knowledge of AI within government, modernize data infrastructure, protect digital rights, and foster new, cross-sector partnerships.
