Between the world leaders gathering in Seoul for the second AI Security Summit this week and Google and OpenAI’s launches of their supercharged new fashions, Astra and GPT-4o, the timing couldn’t be higher. AI feels hotter than ever.  

This 12 months’s EmTech will likely be all about how we will harness the facility of generative AI whereas mitigating its dangers,and the way the know-how will have an effect on the workforce, competitiveness, and democracy. We may even get a sneak peek into the AI labs of Google, OpenAI, Adobe, AWS, and others. 

This 12 months’s prime audio system embody Nick Clegg, the president of worldwide affairs at Meta, who will speak about what the platform intends to do to curb misinformation. In 2024, over 40 nationwide elections will occur all over the world, making it one of the consequential political years in historical past. On the similar time, generative AI has enabled a completely new age of misinformation. And it’s all coalescing, with main shake-ups at social media firms and data platforms. MIT Know-how Evaluation’s govt editor Amy Nordrum will press Clegg on stage about what this all means for democracy.

Listed below are another classes I’m enthusiastic about.

A Peek Inside Google’s plans 
Jay Yagnik, a vp and engineering fellow at Google, will share what the historical past of AI can train us about the place the know-how goes subsequent and talk about Google’s imaginative and prescient for the way to harness generative AI.  

From the Labs of OpenAI
Srinivas Narayanan, the vp of utilized AI at OpenAI, will share what the corporate has been constructing lately and what’s coming subsequent. In one other session, Connor Holmes, who led work on video-generation AI Sora, will speak about how video-generation fashions might work as world simulators, and what this implies for future AI fashions. 

The Usually-Neglected Privateness Issues in AI
Language fashions are vulnerable to leaking non-public knowledge. On this session Patricia Thaine, cofounder and CEO of Personal AI, will discover strategies that preserve secrets and techniques secret and assist organizations keep compliance with privateness laws. 

A Phrase Is Price a Thousand Photos
Cynthia Lu, senior director and head of utilized analysis at Adobe, will stroll us by the AI know-how that Adobe is constructing and the moral and authorized implications of generated imagery. I’ve written about Adobe’s efforts to construct generative AI in a non-exploitative approach and the way they’re paying off, so I’ll have an interest to listen to extra about that.