Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Get D.C.'s Acclaim At The AI Honors Ceremony
The inaugural AI Honors, presented on Tuesday by the Washington AI Network at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, will honor lawmakers, tech executives, researchers and others who are influential voices in AI.
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Honorees include Sen. Todd Young (R-IN); Rep. Jay Olbernolte (R-CA) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), chairs of the House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence; Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; Jack Hindary, CEO of SandboxAQ; Patricia K. Falcone, deputy director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Father Paolo Benanti, the Vatican's official adviser on AI ethics.
Tammy Haddad, the founder of the Washington AI Network, said in a statement, 'The AI Honors are designed to recognize the people and ideas driving meaningful progress—and to connect leaders from across the ecosystem in a setting worthy of the moment.'
The ceremony sponsors include OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon, among other tech and AI companies. The event is happening around the Special Competitive Studies Project's AI+Expo.
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