Artificial Intelligence Speakers

Leigh Bureau has represented artificial intelligence speakers since 1986. We're excited to carry on that legacy and present our robust roster of modern-day thought leaders in the space. As AI continues to progress, it will touch every corner of life and business. With speakers offering insights from all angles, rest assured knowing we have the perfect speaker to fit your needs.

AI AND SOCIETY

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Award-winning NYT Columnist
Bestselling Author, Futureproof
Preparing you for the future that's already here
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Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Insights on what happens when human biases bleed into AI programming 
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Bestselling Author, A World Without Work and The Future Of Professions
Exploring AI's impact on the future of work and education
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Host, Executive Producer, Bloomberg TV
Bestselling Author, Brotopia
Conversations with tech insiders about AI's impacts on business and culture
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Founder, FiveThirtyEight
Bestselling Author, The Signal and the Noise
Masterful statistical analysis of how AI is impacting society
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Founder, Data & Society
Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research
Ensuring fairness and accountability in machine learning while combating bias in data

INSIDE AI

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Senior Director of AI Research, NVIDIA
Bren Professor, Caltech
Leading research and development in academia and industry to create the next big thing
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Bestselling Author, The Alignment Problem 
and The Most Human Human
Exploring human values in AI and what happens when intelligent machines go rogue
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Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Author, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Testing the limits of the "intelligence" of large language models and other generative AI systems
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Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Applications of AI and robotics from a true pioneer who authored the field's go-to textbook
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Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Practical applications of machine learning to improve the human condition and decision-making

ECONOMICS OF AI

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Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Bestselling Author, Power and Progress
How to ensure technological prosperity benefits us all and not just those at the top
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Global Business Columnist, Financial Times
Global Economic Analyst, CNN
Big data, AI, surveillance capitalism and their impacts on global economics, business, and politics
Avi Goldfarb
Bestselling Author, Power and Prediction and Prediction Machines
Connecting the threads between AI’s decision-making abilities, power, profits, and control
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Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
Bestselling Author, The Work of the Future
An optimistic view of the impacts of AI on the labor market

AI INNOVATION

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Editorial Director, Google Labs
 
The brilliant mind behind Google's new AI-powered chatbot and workspace, NotebookLM
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Co-founder & CEO, Hidden Door
 
Pushing the boundaries of machine learning and creating a new world of gaming with generative AI
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Founder, Datawheel
Author, How Humans Judge Machines
Rethinking democracy and civic participation through AI
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Director of Game R&D, Institute for the Future
Bestselling Author, Imaginable
Using gaming and AI technologies to help you think like a futurist

AI POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY

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The implications of AI on cybersecurity through the lens of The Perfect Weapon
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Global Director, Security & Compliance, Google
Former Asst. Director for Cybersecurity, DHS
AI and cybersecurity from public and private perspectives
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Founder & Director, Project on Technology, the Economy, and National Security, MIT
Directing the research that guides technology and AI policymaking
Fred Kaplan
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
Bestselling Author, Dark Territory
The history, present, and future of cyber warfare
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Washington Post Foreign Affairs Columnist
Bestselling Author
What's at stake with AI's role in modern cyber warfare

AI IN HEALTHCARE

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Founder, Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute
Author, Deep Medicine
Using AI to tailor treatment to the individual's unique biological profile rather than to "the average human"
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Former Chief Health Strategist, Google
Former Head of Health Strategy, Facebook/Meta
Why the medical industry is uniquely poised to adopt AI
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Professor and Chair, Dept of Medicine, UCSF
Author, The Digital Doctor
Separating hype from reality with nuanced discussions of replacement versus augmentation
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Director of Digital Health, Stanford University
Exploring what AI can and can't do to help physicians and patients
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Principal Research Scientist, Health 0.0, MIT
AI solutions that are more effective, less costly, ethical, and explainable

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