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Tech giants studying artificial intelligence are enlisting an Obama veteran
as their new leader

Terah Lyons is now the founding executive director of the Partnership for AI

   By Tony Romm@TonyRomm Oct 19, 2017, 12:00pm EDT
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   [Terah_L___JCo_Studios__2238.0.jpg] Terah Lyons Terah Lyons

   An artificial intelligence research-and-policy organization set up by
   Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants is tapping the Obama
   administration’s former AI expert as its new leader.

   Terah Lyons will now serve as the founding executive director at the
   Partnership for AI, a group that seeks to study the impact of powerful
   algorithms and machine learning on jobs and the economy — while
   addressing potential regulatory issues along the way.

   Five companies — Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and IBM — formed
   the nonprofit in 2016, and tech giants like Apple joined it soon after.
   Currently, the partnership also counts among its ranks about 50
   consumer groups, privacy advocates, tech-focused academics and others,
   some of whom have expressed concerns that AI could threaten privacy or
   contribute to discrimination. Together, though, they’re all set to meet
   in Berlin next week.

   Lyons, for her part, arrives at the AI consortium after working as a
   tech policy fellow at the Mozilla Foundation. Before that, she served
   under former President Barack Obama, advising the White House’s work to
   study the use and effects of artificial intelligence.

   A capstone of that effort was a 2016 report that explored the power of
   robotics, neural networks and machine-learning tools in everything from
   self-driving cars to precision medicine, along with a series of
   recommendations for how to tackle regulatory challenges posed by AI.
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