I wonder at the timing of this article and upcoming workshops.
I'm not deep in the AI community... did something happen recently to spark greater interest and preparation for AI? Any big news story I somehow missed?
Maybe the topic's been on the backburner at the White House and they're only just getting it started now; regardless, it sounds promising.
The big new problem in presidential decision theory is Coherent Extrapolated Trump.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/05/03/preparing-future-artificial-intelligence