Thursday, April 24
- Informal drinks, 7:30 PM @ Loosa Brews
Friday, April 25
Hayes Conference Room, Law School, Room 344
- 9:00 – 9:30: Breakfast
- 9:30 – 9:40: Introductions — Vice Dean Joel Nichols
- 9:40 – 10:30: Panel 1: Foundations of AI Safety and Biosecurity
- Doni Bloomfield: Dual‑Use Innovation Policy
- Mirit Eyal & Yonathan Arbel: Tax Levers For A Safer AI Future
- 10:30 – 10:40: Break
- 10:40 – 12:20: Panel 2: Liability Frameworks in AI Governance
- Gabe Weil: Instrument Choice In AI Governance: Liability As The Indispensable Complement
- Trent Kannegieter: Stochastic AI Systems: Stochasticity’s Implications For Product Liability
- Lauren Scholz: Private Law And AI Risk
- Commentator: Daniel Schwarcz
- 12:20 – 1:20: Lunch
- 12:25 – 12:55: “What is AI Safety” panel — Kevin Frazier, Peter Salib, & Yonathan Arbel
- 1:20 – 2:00: Panel 3: AI Alignment and Technical Governance
- Jack Boeglin: Aligning Artificial Intelligence to The Law
- Nicholas Caputo: Alignment As Jurisprudence
- 2:00 – 2:30: Outside coffee
- 2:30 – 3:30: Panel 4: Litigation and Judicial Approaches to AI
- Noam Kolt: Governing AI Agents
- Daniel Wilf‑Townsend: Artificial Intelligence And Aggregate Litigation
- David Rubenstein: Policy Formation In American Federalism
- 3:30 – 3:40: Break
- 3:40 – 4:40: Panel 5: AI Safety and Existential Risk
- John Bliss: Against Extinction: Inside the Global Movement for Safe AI
- Jonathan Barlow: The Virtue Of Intelligence: Reframing Existential AI Risk Through Virtue Epistemology
- Henry A. Thompson: AI And The Law
- 6:30 PM: Conference Dinner (On‑premise)
Saturday, April 26
Hayes Conference Room, Law School, Room 344
- 8:00: Training run along the Tuscaloosa River Walk
- 9:00 – 9:30: Breakfast
- 9:30 – 10:30: Panel 6: Algorithmic Justice and Delegation
- Andrew Keane Woods: Deference And Delegation To Algorithms
- Benjamin Sundholm: The Tort Law We Need
- Paul Weitzel: Defining Artificial Intelligence
- 10:30 – 10:40: Break
- 10:40 – 12:00: Panel 7: Rights and Protections in AI Systems
- Peter Salib: AI Rights for Human Safety
- Frank Fagan: AI Rights And Safe AI
- Rodrigo Belle Gubbins: From Human‑to‑Machine to Human‑to‑“Human” Interactions
- Gad Weiss: Aligned Structuring Of AI Startups
- 12:00 – 12:45: Lunch
- 12:45 – 1:45: Panel 8: International and Comparative AI Governance
- Carolina Barcelos Bontempo: The Civil Liability Of AI From A Brazilian Law Perspective
- Tracy Pearl: Governance In The Absence Of Government
- Karni Chagal: This Is Not A Game: The Addictive Allure of Digital Companions