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I agree that the companies themselves might be loathe to participate, except that they have published public academic papers, and are therefore publicly responsible at least for the content of those papers. But I had in mind more of an external expert panel of folks who haven't been directly involved, like academic NLP experts, maybe philosophers/sociologists of technology?

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Could work, but the risk there is the current state of AI is confusing and it's mechanisms often unintuitive m, so what value will the lay opinions bring to the table?

It depends a lot on the specific conversation content, i.e. if the goal is only to wax over philosophical matters, then this could work. Such an event would be entirely uninteresting to me compared to hearing discourse or debates between the world rebound experts.

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