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Following on from his essay 'The Proper Governance Default for AI', Adam Thierer will be discussing why it is so essential to get our policy defaults set properly if we hope to encourage entrepreneurialism and growth.

Adam will comment on recent artificial intelligence policy in the EU and how the UK and US can chart a wiser course by avoiding the the heavy-handed, precautionary principle-based approach that the EU is set to impose via the new AI Act and other cumbersome regulations.

About the Speaker:

Adam Thierer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Thierer serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Artificial Intelligence Commission on Competitiveness, Inclusion, and Innovation. He is also a member of the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project.

Thierer has authored and edited several books, including his foundational book on the freedom to innovate, Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom. 

Previously, Thierer was president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He received his MA in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland and his BA in Journalism and Political Philosophy from Indiana University.

Full details:

Date: Thursday, 9th June 2022

Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Agenda:

18.00 - Doors open + welcome drinks

18.30 - Lecture starts 

19.15 - Q&A 

20.00 - Event closes

For more information or to request a place, please contact events@adamsmith.org