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UPCOMING WEBINAR - OCTOBER 30 , 2025
9:00 AM - 12:15 pm edt
The Great Tech War:
Can We Optimize Innovation, Regulate AI, Protect Children and Address Social Media Content at the Same Time?
Join George Mason University’s (GMU) Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center® (Center), GMU’s Center for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC), and GMU’s Costello College of Business, and a host of experts for a discussion of important developments concerning the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the regulation of children’s access to social media and restrictions on social media content.
REGULATING AI
The potential regulation of AI was a focus of the budget reconciliation act, as the Senate overwhelmingly rejected a House provision that would have imposed a 10-year moratorium on state regulation of AI. Given how fast AI is moving into all aspects of our lives this issue will not go away. The panel will consider this topic, including:
- State regulatory actions and pending initiatives
- The Administration’s policies and operational initiatives
- Deployment of machine learning and Artificial General Intelligence.
- Reacting to hostile power
- AI threats
- Governance needed to ensure human oversight and control of AI
"Singularity” – when AI surpasses/merges with human intelligence
- AI and intellectual property rights and principles
REGULATING THE INTERNET
Government attempts to restrict access to social media in efforts to protect children and requirements related to social media content have recently become major topics of controversy. The program will consider a range of recent developments, including:
- State actions to impose age verification requirements, parental consent, and design standards
- Content-neutrality mandates on social media platforms
- Challenges to state laws regarding hate speech, extremism, disinformation, foreign political involvement, and deepfakes during election periods
- Foreign government actions concerning internet speech and U.S. reactions
MODERATORS
Dr. Jean-Pierre Auffret, Director, Research Partnerships, Costello College of Business, GMU; Director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), College of Engineering & Computing, GMU
Thomas P. Vartanian, Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center®, Author, 200 Years of American Financial Panics, Crashes, Recessions and Depressions, And the Technology That Will Change It All
Robert H. Ledig, Managing Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center®
FACULTY
Adam Candeub – Acting General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Professor of Law & Director of the Intellectual Property, Information, and Communications Law Program, Michigan State University College of Law
Lena Cohen – Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ari Cohn – Lead Counsel, Tech Policy, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)
Mary Ann Franks – Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law, George Washington University Law School
Peyton Hornberger – Communications Director, The Alliance for Secure AI
Tommy Jones – Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business; Chief Scientist, Foundation
Stephanie Joyce – Chief of Staff/Senior Vice President, Computer & Communications Industry Association
Jess Miers – Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law
Gary Rinkerman – Partner, Pierson Ferdinand
Paul Taske – Co-Director NetChoice Litigation Center
EVENT INFORMATION
There is no charge to attend the program.
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