Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie: Charting a Course in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Lunch: 12:30 pm
Conversation and Q&A: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52 Street, NYC
Artificial Intelligence may help solve some of the world's most difficult problems, but it also poses enormous challenges, including some we may not yet have imagined. Eric Schmidt, technologist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former CEO of Google, and Craig Mundie, president of Mundie & Associates and former Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer, focus on navigating the age of AI in their new book Genesis. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, the late elder statesman and treasured Paley Center board member, also brought his unmatched global vision to Genesis in what would be his last major publication. Schmidt and Mundie will share their insights, explain how AI is already transforming everything from our businesses to our relationships, and delve into the future of humanity as we build a framework for existing alongside this new technology.
In Person:
Eric Schmidt, Former CEO & Chairman, Google; Co-author, Genesis, KBE
Craig Mundie, President, Mundie & Associates
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Eric Schmidt
Former CEO & Chairman, Google; Co-author, Genesis, KBE
Eric Schmidt is a technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Joining the founders of Google in 2001, he helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology, first as chief executive officer and chairman, and later as executive chairman and technical adviser. In 2021, he founded the Special Competitive Studies Project, a nonprofit initiative to strengthen America’s long- term competitiveness in AI and technology. Most recently, he and his wife Wendy cofounded Schmidt Sciences, a nonprofit organization working to advance science and technology that deepens human understanding of the natural world and develops solutions to global issues.
Craig Mundie
President, Mundie & Associates
Craig Mundie, president of Mundie & Associates, joined Microsoft in 1992 and retired in 2014 as chief research and strategy officer. He advises Microsoft on quantum computing and cybersecurity, is a director of the Institute for Systems Biology, a technology advisor to the Cleveland Clinic, and also an investor/advisor in early-stage companies involved in AI, biotech, fusion energy, and materials science. He served Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Council and Obama’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among his honors is a Doctor of Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
