Artificial intelligence with Allison Stanger and Nazam Laila

Allison Stanger is a political scientist and founding director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, where she is Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004 and, between 2009 and 2011, served as consultant to the US Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. Stanger is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press. Who Elected Big Tech? is in development. Stanger’s writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, HA: Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center, Perspectives on Digital Humanism, Financial Times, Military History Quarterly, The Atlantic, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post; and she has testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, Senate Budget Committee, Congressional Oversight Panel, Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor, Pensions) Committee, and House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. She has twice served as visiting professor of government at Harvard University, where she received her PhD in political science. Her research has been funded by the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation, among others.
Nazam Laila is a doctoral candidate and a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Politics and International Studies. She is conducting her PhD research as a Commonwealth Doctoral Scholar. She is also a research group member of The Center for AI and Digital Policy [CAIDP]. Nazam has been involved with academic teaching and various research and development work in Bangladesh. Her roles include lecturer and senior fellow at BRAC University and Asian University for Women respectively and research associate at Biomedical Research Foundation. Nazam completed her MSc in Gender, Development, and Globalisation from The London School of Economics and Political Science and her MA and BA in Interdisciplinary English Literature from BRAC University.
This video was filmed live at the Alpine Fellowship 2023 Symposium in Fjallnas, Sweden. The event was held in partnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.