Anne Neuberger

Managing AI at the National and Organizational Level: Opportunity and Risk

In the competition between authoritarian governments and democracy on artificial intelligence, countries are playing the game by different rules. Authoritarian countries can collect data and train models for national security or commercial purposes without considering the civil liberties and privacy protections of their citizens; democracies are more constrained. China trains sophisticated facial recognition models on data collected from hundreds of millions of cameras deployed around the world, enabling its advancements in computer vision at scale. AI will be transformative for intelligence and military purposes. How can nations ethically compete in artificial intelligence while maintaining their values? At the corporate level, AI offers transformative opportunities for organizations and also presents new risks. This talk focuses on how to establish an enterprise-wide risk management approach to AI, from identifying opportunities and benefits to defining how models are deployed and used responsibly. Anne Neuberger is an advocate for using artificial intelligence in operations and building a dynamic approach to assessing and mitigating risk to use AI effectively and responsibly.

Geopolitical Risk and Cybersecurity

We live in a time of intense uncertainty, geopolitical connectivity, and changing alliances, which play out in cyberspace. It’s more important than ever to consider geopolitical risk in crafting a company’s and sector’s strategy. 

Geopolitical tensions and periods of crisis or conflict play out in cyberspace, from Russia’s cyber attack against a U.S. satellite company on the eve of its invasion of Ukraine to China’s sophisticated attacks against U.S. telecommunications firms. This talk will provide a broad geopolitical assessment of geopolitical tensions in cyberspace and the strategies and capabilities of U.S. adversaries and practical steps to guide CEOs and Boards on how they should assess geopolitical risk to their operations and digital platforms and define the necessary measures to ensure that corporate operations and reputations are adequately protected. The talk will also outline how to manage a crisis and/or operational disruptions resulting from a cyber attack or internal or supply chain era, such as those following the 2024 Crowdstrike update.