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Please join the Schmidt Program on AI for a discussion with Jackson-Schmidt Program Senior Fellows Beth Goldberg, Head of R&D, Google Jigsaw; and Ziad Reslan, Product Policy Staff, OpenAI.

Beth Goldberg, Senior Fellow at the Yale Jackson School and Head of Research & Development at Google’s Jigsaw, leads an interdisciplinary team tackling online harms, from disinformation to extremism, through applied cognitive and behavioral research. She collaborates with academics, civil society, and technologists to enhance tech safety, informed by digital ethnographies of conspiracy theorists, harassers, and extremists. Previously, she managed digital security and journalism programs for the U.S. Department of State with Freedom House and worked with Amnesty International and Namati on human rights abuses. A Fellow with Zeit-Stiftung and Humanity in Action, she also serves on a National Academies committee to counter disinformation.

Ziad Reslan is a writer, attorney and policy expert whose work spans tech policy, immigration and human rights. He has spent the last six years at Google leading different product policy areas including countering mis/disinformation, advocating for child safety online and now leading multimodal GenAI policies. Ziad manages a team of senior product policy managers and specialists that cover GenAI, Google Labs and frontier model policies. From 2015 to 2020 he chaired the board of Urban Light, a Thai-based NGO that helps boys who have been trafficked. Before Google, he was an attorney at Davis Polk, based in New York and Hong Kong and focused on anti-corruption investigations.

This event is open to the Yale community. Please register in advance.