April 23 | The Future of Content Moderation and its Implications for Governance

Join the Cyber Policy Center on April 23rd from Noon–1PM Pacific for The Future of Content Moderation and its Implications for Governance, with speakers Samidh Chakrabarti and Dave Willner of the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies. The session will be moderated by Nate Persily, co director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and is part of the Spring Seminar Series, a series spanning April through June hosted at the Cyber Policy Center. 

NOTE: This sessions is full for in-person registration, but participants can register for the livestream or participate via Zoom. 

The emergence of increasingly powerful large language models is set to fundamentally transform the practice of content moderation. In this talk we will delve into what has made content moderation so daunting to execute historically, how AI's versatility and agility can make previously intractable problems solvable, and the implications this could have on how governments think about regulating the digital sphere. As a glimpse into this future, we will give a sneak peek into a new tool we are building that aims to make content moderation with AI more practical and can help developers bolster the safety of their systems.

About the Speakers

Samidh Chakrabarti has spent his career at the intersection of technology and social impact. He previously founded and led the Civic Integrity team at Facebook (now Meta) where he was responsible for keeping the 3B person community safe from societal-level harms, including driving the company's product work on election integrity and humanitarian crises. Earlier on, Samidh was at Google where he led work on Civic Engagement products. Most recently, Samidh was also the Chief Product Officer at Groq where helped develop a novel AI accelerator platform. Samidh holds graduate degrees from MIT in Artificial Intelligence, from Oxford in Modern History, and from Cambridge in Public Policy. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. 

Dave Willner started his career at Facebook helping users reset their passwords in 2008. He went on to join the company’s original team of moderators, write Facebook’s first systematic content policies, and build the team that maintains those rules to this day. After leaving Facebook in 2013, he consulted for several start ups before joining Airbnb in 2015 to build the Community Policy team. While there he also took on responsibility for the Quality and Training for the Trust team. After leaving Airbnb in 2021, he began working with OpenAI, first as a consultant and then as the company’s first Head of Trust and Safety.  He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in the Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center.