Research Publications & Writing

The Information: Op-Ed: California’s Effort to Regulate AI Would Stifle Innovation (2024)

MLCommons AI Safety Working Group: Introducing v0.5 of the AI Safety Benchmark from MLCommons (2024)

Atlantic Council: Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web Report & Market Research Report (2024)

Tech Policy Press: Want to hold tech companies accountable? Data access alone will not get you there (2024)

Meta Research: Introducing the Researcher Platform: Empowering independent research analyzing large-scale data (2022)

Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine: Twitter & Health: The psychosocial impact of short-form text-based communication on wellbeing (2012)

Social Science & Medicine: Socioeconomic variation in recall and perceived effectiveness of campaign advertisements to promote smoking cessation (2011)

Speaking Engagements

Carnegie Endowment: The Future of AI Regulation: A California Bill Shaping the Debate (2024)

Virtual debate featuring Dan Hendrycks, Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety, Lauren Wagner, Advisor to the Data & Trust Alliance and Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, Ion Stoica, Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley and Founder of Databricks, and Ketan Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor at Yale Law School. Video recording here.

The Information: California Passes AI Bill: What It Means For Developers and Investors (2024)

Roundtable featuring California State Senator Scott Wiener, Dan Hendrycks, Ion Stoica, and Lauren Wagner

Capital Rx Partner Summit: AI & Healthcare with JP Morgan & NYSE (2024)

Recast Capital: Responsible AI for Startups & Investors (2024)

Impossible Tradeoffs Podcast with Katie Harbath: Perspectives on Trust and Safety Among Investors (2024)

Guests Lauren Wagner and Shu Dar Yao discuss their involvement in Duco and the Atlantic Council’s Trust and Safety Market Research Report and the reasons behind it. They highlight key takeaways from the report, such as the unbundling of the tech stack in trust and safety and the impact of regulations and talent outflow.

AI Expo for National Competitiveness: Building Trust & Safety Into AI Products (2024)

Institute for Security & Technology hosted Armilla AI, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, Paladin Capital Group, Google, Responsible AI Institute, Omidyar Network, Human Rights Campaign, Responsible Innovation Labs, and Stanford to share views on the opportunities, risks, and mitigation strategies in this emerging space. Video recording here.

Mozilla Responsible AI Conference (2024)

Keynote on responsible AI at Princeton University, Cornell University, and Harvard University (2024)

Singularity University Interview: Digital Trust & Safety (Nov 2023)

Press

New York Times: A California Bill to Regulate AI Causes Alarm in Silicon Valley (2024)

Politico: ‘Little Tech’ sets its sights on Washington (2024)

New York Times: California A.I. Bill is Amended (2024)

“Critics of SB 1047 argue that the bill could severely limit the options of start-ups that do not have the resources of tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Meta.“It could stifle innovation,” said Lauren Wagner, an investor and researcher who has worked for both Google and Meta.”

CNBC: Ex-Meta staffers see booming business targeting online disinformation after two wars break out (2023)

“Lauren Wagner knows a lot about disinformation. Heading into the 2020 U.S. presidential election, she worked at Facebook, focusing on information integrity and overseeing products designed to make sure content was moderated and fact-checked.”

Fortune: Commerce Department and VC firms partner to encourage “responsible” AI use for startups (2023)