​Meaningful conversations about interesting stories live with the world's first AI biographer

​​​Join former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, Autobiographer CTO James Barnes, and New York Times bestselling author Miles Taylor for an evening of meaningful conversations and storytelling with Autobiographer, the world’s first autobiographical AI.

​Meet Our Speakers

​Campbell Brown
Award-winning journalist Campbell Brown is the former head of global media partnerships at Meta and co-founder of The 74. Prior to launching The 74, Brown founded the Partnership for Educational Justice (PEJ), a parent coalition pushing for great public schools through advocacy and legal action. Before PEJ, Brown founded and led the Parents’ Transparency Project, a watchdog group that investigates and reports on failures and inequality in the public education system.

​Brown began her career covering stories around the globe for CNN and NBC News, where she was recognized for her outstanding reporting on events ranging from the 2000 presidential election to Hurricane Katrina. Brown has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, and Slate.

​Miles Taylor
Miles Taylor is a national security expert, New York Times best-selling author, and renowned technologist. Miles served in a variety of government posts, including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he oversaw operations of the government’s third largest department, including 250,000 employees and a $60 billion budget. Miles also served as an aide on Capitol Hill, in the White House during the George W. Bush administration, and at the Pentagon. In the private sector, he was the Head of Advanced Technology and Security Strategy at Google, driving policy on issues ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum computing.

​Today, Miles advises some of the most innovative companies in the United States focused on frontier technologies and U.S. national interests. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the strategy firm Washington Office and Co-Founder of The Future U.S. policy studio, a nonpartisan group that advises U.S. policymakers on the biggest developments in emerging technology.

​Miles is the author of two New York Times bestsellers — A Warning (2019) and Blowback (2023); the host of the iHeartRadio podcast “The Whistleblowers”; and a special contributor for Americast by BBC News. He is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and BBC on issues related to global security and technology policy, and he has published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Economist, and more.

​Miles serves on the advisory board of more than a dozen tech companies and civic groups and co-founded a technology-focused high school in the nation’s capital called Washington Leadership Academy, which was named one of America’s top 10 “Super Schools.”

​He has taught public policy at the University of Pennsylvania, received his M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, and attended Indiana University as a Truman Scholar. Miles still dreams of becoming a Ghostbuster.

​James Barnes
James Barnes is the co-founder and CTO of Autobiographer, an AI-guided conversational app that helps people discover, preserve, and share their life stories.

​James has spent a decade at the intersection of policy and technology, including helping shape the way that Facebook products and social media companies interact with society during two of the most pivotal elections in American history.