Peter A Allard School of Law

Democratic Resilience in the Age of AI

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Amy Larsen, Director of Global Field Engagement and Strategic Projects on Microsoft’s Democracy Forward team, plans to touch on some of the benefits and challenges of AI; deepfakes, disinformation, and information integrity; Microsoft’s efforts to support global elections throughout this historic Vote-a-Rama year; and the necessity of a multi-sector approach to democratic resilience. The keynote will also share insights about the nation state threat actor landscape as we are seeing it at Microsoft, the role of robust cybersecurity and media literacy efforts, the importance of public awareness and participation during major election years and the responsibility of tech companies like Microsoft to try to prevent harms from new technologies such as abusive AI-generated synthetic content through tools like content provenance. There may also be a short game involved.

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Amy Larsen

Amy Larsen is Director of Global Field Engagement and Strategic Projects on Microsoft’s Democracy Forward team, where she serves as chief liaison to the company's international field teams on priorities such as elections, the information environment, cybersecurity, digital literacy, and artificial intelligence and democracy. She also supports the company’s Tech Accord Team, Global Elections Team, and Ukraine Task Force, and has spearheaded the creation of strategic initiatives like the AI4Democracy partnership between IE University and Microsoft. Previously, Amy practiced law at Davis Polk and then within Morrison & Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk + Crisis Management groups, where she helped develop a tabletop exercise for election officials and served as lead associate in the pro bono representation of GIFCT. Amy previously interned in the Obama White House on then-Vice President Biden’s team, held a human rights fellowship in Congress, and served at the State Department’s U.S. Mission to the EU. She was awarded a Fulbright to South Korea, and is an Aspen Security Scholar and member of the Truman National Security Project. Amy holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale, a J.D. from NYU Law, and an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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