Regulating AI in a fragmented world: Who sets the rules?

Seth Center is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. From 2023 to 2025, Center served as the acting special envoy for critical and emerging technologies at the U.S. Department of State, leading the United States international strategy and diplomatic engagement on AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology. Center was previously senior advisor to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), director for national security strategy and history at the National Security Council, and before that served on the State Department’s policy planning staff and was the historian for the National Security Council. He earned a BA from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of Virginia.

Allan C. Stam is a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, a University Professor, professor of public policy and politics, and former dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.  Previously, he was director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and professor of political science and senior research scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Among other books, he is the author of The Behavioral Origins of War (University of Michigan Press, 2004) and Why Leaders Fight (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He holds a BA from Cornell University and an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.

Astri Kimball Van Dyke, an expert in tech and public policy, is director of Google's global competition policy team. She has worked on public policy for more than 25 years, serving as a political appointee for President Obama in the White House and as deputy counsel to Vice President Biden, at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. government’s development finance agency, at O'Melveny and Myers LLP in the antitrust and strategic counseling practices, and at Goldman Sachs. She is a graduate of Princeton University and New York University School of Law.

Chris Lu is a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. During a public service career that has spanned all three branches of the federal government, Lu’s experience includes both domestic and foreign policy as well as the management of complex organizations. During the Biden administration, he served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for management and reform. During the second term of the Obama administration, Lu served as the U.S. deputy secretary of labor. From 2009 to 2013, Lu served as the White House cabinet secretary and assistant to the president, where he was the primary liaison between the White House and the federal agencies. Lu is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School and holds an honorary doctorate from MacMurray College.

Emmett O'Brien is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia from Beaufort, South Carolina. He is studying in the honors program in the department of politics with a minor in French. O'Brien is the vice president of the International Relations Organization at UVA, which has served as a student-led forum for the discussion of pressing global issues for over 50 years. He also works at the Miller Center as a research assistant for the Presidential Oral History Program and has interned with the Crystal Ball newsletter at the UVA Center for Politics. He is an active member of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Cereal Club at UVA.