Gen. John Allen (left), president of the Brookings Institution, spoke with Edward Felten, Princeton professor of computer science and public affairs, at a public lecture Oct. 2 focused on the use of artificial intelligence in warfare. Allen emphasized the importance of longstanding ethical frameworks within the U.S. military as well as international conventions as critical to avoiding wanton uses of emerging lethal technologies. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
Founded in 1988, the Gilbert Lecture Series was established by G. S. Beckwith Gilbert of the Class of 1963 to bring innovative leaders in business, government, and the professions to the Princeton campus to discuss their ventures and the insights gained in their careers.
Lecturers have included former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Bill Simon, former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes ’54, former NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, former NASA Administrator and Astronaut Major General Charlie Bolden, former eBay and Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Meg Whitman ’77, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos ’86, Ford Motor Company Executive Bill Ford, Jr. ’79, and Microsoft President Brad Smith ’81, among many others.
A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, Beck Gilbert received his MBA in 1967 from New York University. He is an honorary member of the Weill Cornell School of Medicine Class of 2004. In 2006, Mr. Gilbert received an MS in immunology, with a focus on cancer, from Rockefeller University.
Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Harvard Medical School Fellows, he currently serves as a Director of the Yale Cancer Institute, and the Cancer Research Institute.
