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Events • December 5, 2024 

# Understanding AI and AI Policy in 2024 and Beyond 

Over the past two years, much of the conversation around technology has been focused on artificial intelligence (AI). While AI may have increased in popularity and already been used in a wide array of products, we are still only just discovering many of its beneficial applications.

AI is much more than popular products like ChatGPT and is truly saving and changing lives in fields like medicine and disaster response. But as we’ve seen in Europe, the wrong policy approach could prevent the development or deployment of many of these beneficial products.

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##### Rep. Jay Obernolte (R‑CA) 

Representative for the 23rd District of California

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Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

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##### Mark MacCarthy 

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies Program, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution