What does it take to govern a technology that might reshape the world within the decade? Answering that requires both big-picture thinking about where AI is heading and close engagement with the policy fights shaping it in the present.

This event brings together two speakers who sit on opposite ends of that spectrum — one (Nathan Calvin) is shaping frontier AI legislation in statehouses today, the other (Fin Moorhouse) is thinking through what rapid AI progress could mean for the century ahead. Each will give a short talk, followed by a joint Q&A.

Nathan Calvin is General Counsel and VP of State Affairs at Encode (encodeai.org), where he leads legal strategy and state policy initiatives. He was a central figure behind California's SB 53, the Frontier AI Transparency Act, and has led Encode's scrutiny of OpenAI's nonprofit restructuring. He holds a JD and MPP from Stanford and previously worked at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Nathan will speak on Encode's on-the-ground policy work — SB 53 and the RAISE Act, the OpenAI restructuring fight, and the push against federal preemption of state AI regulation.

Fin Moorhouse is a Research Fellow at Forethought, a research organization focused on navigating the transition to advanced AI. He previously worked at Longview Philanthropy and Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, studied philosophy at Cambridge, and co-hosts the Hear This Idea podcast. Fin will speak on the case for accelerated AI progress and what a potential intelligence and industrial explosion could mean: how far AI capabilities might advance beyond the current frontier, and the big-picture effects if progress doesn't stall.