A White House briefing on artificial intelligence (AI) and the voluntary commitments secured from leading AI companies last week will be held at 1 p.m. CST this afternoon, featuring Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and White House senior officials.
Rice University AI experts Fred Oswald and Moshe Vardi are registered to attend the briefing and are available to comment on its proceedings and likely challenges and potential outcomes of recent developments in AI industry advancements and regulation.
Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and a professor of psychological sciences, studies AI and machine learning in the context of organizational and workforce research.
Vardi, the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, researches automated reasoning, databases, computational complexity theory, design specification and verification.
To schedule an interview with one of these experts, contact Amy McCaig, senior media relations specialist, at 713-348-6777 or Silvia Cernea Clark, media relations specialist, at 713-348-6728.
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