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The rapid advancement and global deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in almost all fields transcends national borders, making AI development, deployment, and impact are inherently global and a purely national approach inadequate to address the shared challenges like data and cyber security, interoperability, and international standards for AI for the benefit of all. The challenges are particularly great AI (and biotechnology) is emerging in the period of fracturing of the global 20th century world order and, in contrast to nuclear weapons technology, may be readily deployed by “non state actors.”? In this context, the panelists will explore some critical questions regarding AI governance, particularly concerning spillover risks that could cause global-scale consequences in the deployment of AI in biology, AI in the US-China relations, and AI in climate change (please add other areas who will join the discussion), and the need for global cooperation and preventing AI governance from overwhelmingly becoming a tool of power rivalries.

Open to all, informal lunch provided. This event is held onsite with a Zoom session. Please register below for Zoom access:

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Leifan Wang is an associate professor of international law at Tianjin University School of Law and Center for Biosafety Research & Strategy. Her research focuses on public international law, global biosafety and biosecurity governance, particularly in the conjunction with artificial intelligence, and the impacts of emerging biotechnology on health and security. She co-drafted the Tianjin Biosecurity Guidelines for Codes of Conduct for Scientists with experts from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and InterAcademy Partnership. She obtained her Ph.D. in law from Renmin University of China, and was an attorney admitted to the bar in New York and China. At the Paul Tsai Center, she will work on an AI+Biosafety governance project in the context of U.S.-China relations and cooperation.

Karman Lucero is Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where he researches China’s governance of emerging technologies and U.S.-China relations. He leads multiple Track II dialogues on the governance of artificial intelligence in military and civilian contexts that include academic, private sector, and other experts from the U.S., China, and other countries. In the summer of 2025, he will be a visiting scholar at Renmin University Law School. In the summer of 2024, he was a visiting scholar at Peking University Law School. He has spoken at multiple conferences pertaining to AI governance and U.S.-China relations, including the Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Law’s Rule of Law Forum. He has advised various government agencies and international organizations. Prior to being at Yale, he worked at the Data & Society Research Institute and Microsoft’s US Government Affairs Office. He received a J.D. and B.A. from Columbia University.