THE RISE OF DIGITALAUTHORITARIANISM:

CHINAAI &

HUMAN RIGHTS

SEPTEMBER 29 OCTOBER 1 OCTOBER 6 OCTOBER 99-11 AM PDT 12-3 PM ET

2020

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020PANEL 1

Opening RemarksCondoleezza Rice

Director, Hoover Institution, Former U.S. Secretaryof State, Denning Professor in Global Business at the

Graduate School of Business

Panel 1: How AI is powering China's Domestic Surveillance StateHow is AI exacerbating surveillance risks and enabling digitalauthoritarianism?  This session will examine both state-sponsored applicationsand Chinese commercial services.

KeynoteMung Chiang | Advisor on Science and Technology, U.S. State Department

ModeratorMelissa Chan | Foreign Affairs Reporter, Deutsche Welle Asia

PanelistsBethany Allen-Ebrahimian | China Reporter, AxiosGlenn Tiffert | Research Fellow, Hoover InstitutionXiao Qiang | Research Scientist, UC Berkeley & Editor-in-Chief, China DigitalTimes

HOW AI IS POWERING CHINA'SDOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE STATE

9-11 AM PDT 12-3 PM ET

Welcome RemarksLarry Diamond, Global Digital Policy Incubator

Glenn Tiffert, Hoover InstitutionJenny Wang, Human Rights Foundation

OCTOBER 1, 2020PANEL 2

THE ETHICS & IMPLICATIONS OF DOINGBUSINESS WITH CHINA AND CHINESE

COMPANIES

Panel 2: Sharp Market PowerWhat dynamics are at play in China's effort to establish market dominancefor Chinese companies, both domestically and globally? What demandsare placed on non-Chinese technology companies to participate in theChinese marketplace? What framework should U.S.-based companies useto evaluate the risks and opportunities for collaboration and market entryin China? To what extent are Chinese companies (e.g..,TikTok) competingin Western markets required to comply with Chinese governmentinstructions or demands for access to data?

ModeratorCasey Newton | Silicon Valley Editor, The Verge

Panelists

Megha Rajagopalan | International Correspondent and Former China BureauChief, Buzzfeed News

Mary Hui | Hong Kong-based Technology and Business Reporter, Quartz

Alex Stamos | Director, Stanford Internet Observatory & Former ChiefSecurity Officer, Facebook

9-11 AM PDT 12-3 PM ET

OCTOBER 6, 2020PANEL 3

CHINA AS AN EMERGING GLOBAL AI SUPERPOWER

Panel 3: China as an Emerging Global AI SuperpowerHow should we think about China's growing influence in the realm of AI andthe attendant geopolitical risks and implications? This session will exploreChina’s bid through Huawei to build and control the world's 5G networks,and what that implies for human rights and national sovereignty andsecurity; China's export of surveillance technology to authoritarian regimesaround the world; China's global partnerships to research and develop AI;and the problem of illicit technology transfer/theft.

Keynote & Conversation

Mike Brown | Director, Defense Innovation Unit

ModeratorDominic Ziegler | Senior Asia Correspondent and Banyan Columnist, TheEconomist

PanelistsSteven Feldstein | Associate Professor, Boise State UniversityLindsay Gorman | Fellow for Emerging Technologies, Alliance for SecuringDemocracy, German Marshall FundMaya Wang | China Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch

Competing in the Superpower Marathon with China

Conversant: Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director of GDPi

9-11 AM PDT 12-3 PM ET

OCTOBER 9, 2020PANEL 4

Closing RemarksStrengthening American Capability and International Collaboration in AIFei-Fei Li | Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

HOW DEMOCRACIES SHOULDRESPOND TO CHINA’S

EMERGENCE AS AN AI SUPERPOWER

Panel 4: How Democracies Should Respond to China's Emergence as an AISuperpowerHow should the rest of the world, and especially the world's democracies,react to China's bid to harness AI for ill as well as good? How do we strike theright balance between vigilance in defense of human rights and nationalsecurity and xenophobic overreaction?

KeynoteAudrey Tang | Digital Minister, Taiwan

ModeratorLarry Diamond | Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Freeman SpogliInstitute for International Studies

Panelists

Anja Manuel | Co-Founder, Rice, Hadley, Gates & ManuelChris Meserole | Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence and EmergingTechnology Initiative, Brookings Institution

Christopher Balding | Associate Professor, Fulbright University Vietnam

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