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James Manyika is senior vice president of research, technology, and society at Google and Alphabet, where he leads efforts to responsibly shape and advance innovations, including in AI, machine learning, and quantum computing. A former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, he is chair and director emeritus of McKinsey Global Institute. Manyika served under President Obama as vice chair of the Global Development Council and under two U.S. commerce secretaries on the Digital Economy Board and Innovation Advisory Board. He is vice chair of the National AI Advisory Committee, a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Responsible Computing, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished fellow at Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI and at Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
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