Artificial intelligence, its future and its impact on US competitiveness and national security will be examined in Baker Institute webinar

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Artificial intelligence, its future and its impact on US competitiveness and national security will be examined in Baker Institute webinar

HOUSTON – (April 26, 2021) – Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, ex-Lockheed Martin CEO and chairman Norman Augustine and Alphabet Inc. board chairman John Hennessy will discuss the role of artificial intelligence and other technologies play in the United States’ prosperity during a free webinar Thursday.

Hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the webinar is part of the Civic Scientist Lecture series, which is sponsored by the Baker Institute’s Science and Technology Policy Program. The panelists will address the power and limits of artificial intelligence technologies and their impact on our economy, security and welfare.

Schmidt is the co-founder of Schmidt Futures and the chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Hennessy is a former president of Stanford University and the founder and director of its Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program.

What: Baker Institute webinar — "Unprecedented Challenges to Key Technologies Underpinning U.S. Competitiveness and Security."

Who: Eric Schmidt, Norman Augustine and John Hennessy.

When: Thursday, April 29, noon CST.

Where: Online; the webinar is open to the public, but registration is required at https://riceconnect.rice.edu/Baker/ST-security-challenges.

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Founded in 1993, Rice University’s Baker Institute ranks as the No. 1 university-affiliated think tank in the world and the No. 1 energy think tank in the world. As a premier nonpartisan think tank, the institute conducts research on domestic and foreign policy issues with the goal of bridging the gap between the theory and practice of public policy. The institute’s strong track record of achievement reflects the work of its endowed fellows, Rice University faculty scholars and staff, coupled with its outreach to the Rice student body through fellow-taught classes — including a public policy course — and student leadership and internship programs. Learn more about the institute at www.bakerinstitute.org or on the institute’s blog, http://blog.bakerinstitute.org.

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