Elizabeth Kelly, director of the U.S. AI Safety Institute, on AI policy, guidance on misuse, combating harms, international cooperation, and model testing
Host Tammy Haddad interviews Elizabeth Kelly, the first director of the U.S. AI Safety Institute, before a live theater audience at the new Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. Kelly co-authored and is now implementing President Biden’s AI Executive Order at the U.S. AI Safety Institute at NIST. Kelly highlights the Institute’s new draft guidance on AI model misuse, including combatting image-based sexual abuse content generated by AI, and lays out how safety drives innovation and their plans for international cooperation and model testing. Kelly also introduces the Institute’s new head of policy, Conrad Stosz.