Hao has written about the societal impact of AI for the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, and other publications. Hao’s reporting draws on interviews with a wide range of individuals who are driving and navigating the rise of AI, including Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists.

Hao currently leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, a program training thousands of journalists around the world on how to cover Artificial Intelligence. Her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s Open AI, was published on May 20.

Christiana McFarland is the director of SRI’s Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy. She leads the center’s efforts to accelerate the long-term economic and social impacts of investments in science, technology, and a skilled workforce through innovation-based development strategies. 

Karen Myers’ research focuses on intelligent systems that facilitate human-machine collaboration. Her expertise includes autonomy, multi-agent systems, automated planning and scheduling, and intelligent assistants. Myers has served on the Executive Council for the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI) and the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). She was on the editorial boards for the Journal for AI Research and the advisory board for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. She holds a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.