Former U.S. Rep. Brad Carson, now president of an advocacy group calling for regulations on artificial intelligence, will visit Lawton and Duncan this month in the next installment of Cameron University’s academic festival, “Being Human in the Age of AI.”
Carson will visit Cameron’s Lawton campus the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 10, to speak to students on ethical uses of artificial intelligence. He then will travel to Duncan to deliver a community presentation in the Simmons Center.
Carson’s presentation, “Ethical Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence,” begins at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Although the evening session is free, tickets must be reserved in advance. To reserve a ticket online, visit www. cameron.edu/festivaltickets.
Carson is cofounder and president of Americans for Responsible Innovation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to policy advocacy in the public interest and focused on emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. The nonprofit works with lawmakers, national security experts, civil society organizations and technology industry associations to advance bipartisan legislation.
“We seek to address a broad range of policy issues raised by AI, including current harms, national security concerns and emerging risks,” Carson said in a news release. “ARI is a bipartisan organization, working within and across political ideologies. We seek policies that protect the public while maintaining America’s competitive advantage in the development and research of artificial intelligence.”
A Rhodes Scholar, Carson is widely published and a noted authority on national security, energy policy and American politics. He served two terms as a U.S. congressman from Oklahoma.
He later deployed as an intelligence officer during Operation Iraqi Freedom and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service, according to the news release. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama appointed Carson acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness at the Department of Defense, according to the news release. For his work as undersecretary, military historian Richard Kohn has hailed Carson as the most successful and consequential person to ever hold the job.
Carson was appointed to the faculty of the business and law schools at the University of Tulsa, where he directed the National Energy Policy Institute and taught academic courses on energy policy, property law, negotiation and game theory, globalization, and law and literature. He went on to serve as UT’s 21st president from 2021-2025, departing after helping establish ARI in 2023.