{"id":241519,"date":"2026-05-08T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/inside-dcs-ai-expo-industry-leaders-discuss-same-fears-held-by-many\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:10:06","slug":"inside-dcs-ai-expo-industry-leaders-discuss-same-fears-held-by-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/inside-dcs-ai-expo-industry-leaders-discuss-same-fears-held-by-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside DC\u2019s AI expo, industry leaders discuss same fears held by many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/inside-a-big-ai-expo-the-industry-is-talking-about-the-same-thing-you-are\/\">Inside DC\u2019s AI expo, industry leaders discuss same fears held by many<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/inside-a-big-ai-expo-the-industry-is-talking-about-the-same-thing-you-are\/\">https:\/\/wtop.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/inside-a-big-ai-expo-the-industry-is-talking-about-the-same-thing-you-are\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 05:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wtop.com\">wtop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence expo in D.C. is hosting leaders of the industry who are discussing many of the same fears about the technology held by people outside tech circles.<\/p>\n<p>                            <span class=\"zoom_icon\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            An artificial intelligence expo in D.C. is hosting leaders of the industry.(WTOP\/John Domen)<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Photo-May-07-2026-4-58-54-PM-scaled-e1778193469107-780x520.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                                An artificial intelligence expo in D.C. is hosting leaders of the industry.(WTOP\/John Domen)<\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence expo in D.C. is hosting leaders of the industry who are discussing many of the same fears about the technology held by people outside tech circles.<\/p>\n<p>The AI+ Expo is free for anyone to attend and hosted by a think tank called the Special Competitive Studies Project. It\u2019s filled with tech startups, defense contractors and a wider range of companies using AI in all sorts of ways.<\/p>\n<p>And one topic of frequent discussion on the many stages and in conference rooms is the impact the technology is having on jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a problem that we need to be taking seriously as a leadership issue,\u201d said Miriam Vogel, president and CEO of Bethesda, Maryland-based EqualAI, which focuses on policy and governance of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something I feel very strongly and something we talk about a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vogel referred to AI as a general purpose tool and said it\u2019s \u201cnot something happening to\u201d people, but something people can engage with in their families and workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Arun Gupta, CEO of the NobleReach Foundation, a Tysons, Virginia-based nonprofit promoting public service to tech workers, spoke not just about jobs, but about how AI will influence careers.<\/p>\n<p>He said he believes young people are likely to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/inside-a-big-ai-expo-the-industry-is-talking-about-the-same-thing-you-are\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside DC\u2019s AI expo, industry leaders discuss same fears held by many https:\/\/wtop.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/inside-a-big-ai-expo-the-industry-is-talking-about-the-same-thing-you-are\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Photo-May-07-2026-4-58-54-PM-scaled-e1778205332507.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241522,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241519\/revisions\/241522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}