The AI Revolution: The Big Questions and Big Impact

PW SINGER

Founder & Managing Partner, Useful Fiction

PETER W. SINGER is a strategist at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University, and the founder & managing partner at Useful Fiction. A New York Times Bestselling author, he has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators and by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues. His critically acclaimed novels include Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War. No author, living or dead, has more books on the professional US military reading lists.

0845–0925

DoD AI Policy and Integration

Greg grant

Senior Advisor, Special Competitive Studies Project

GREG GRANT is a senior advisor for the Special Competitive Studies Project and an adjunct senior fellow for the Center for a New American Security. He brings eight years of experience working in the Department of Defense in addition to several years working as a journalist covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Previously, he served as a senior principal at MITRE’s National Security Sector focused on the operational implications of emerging technologies, as senior director of strategy at the Defense Innovation Unit, and as special assistant to Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work.

0925–1010

Training You and Your AI

Ken Liu

Award-Winning Sci-Fi Writer and AI Expert

KEN LIU is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote The Dandelion Dynasty and the English translation of the international bestseller, The Three-Body Problem; as well as the short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. Ken also penned the Star Wars novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. Liu frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, and the mathematics of origami.

1025–1110

Unsolvable Questions For AI

JENNIFER STRONG

SHIFT AI Podcast Host (virtual)

JENNIFER STRONG is the host and creator of SHIFT, a podcast that examines our ever-changing trust in automation and emerging technologies. Strong is the creator of several tech podcasts for newsrooms, including ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review. Her reporting has received wide acclaim, including six Webby and three Podcast Academy Award nominations. Her narrative podcasts were shortlisted twice at the New York Festival and once for Podcast of the Year by The Drum Awards for a taping she did inside an experimental fighter plane.

1110–1155

The Future Impact of AI on Defense and Beyond

August Cole

Founder & Managing Partner, Useful Fiction

AUGUST COLE is founder & managing partner at Useful Fiction, and an author exploring the future of conflict through fiction and other forms of FICINT storytelling. His critically acclaimed novels include Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War. Cole’s talks, short stories, and workshops have taken him from speaking at the Nobel Institute in Oslo to presenting at SXSW Interactive to tackling the “Dirty Name” obstacle at Fort Benning.

1210–1250