171. Symposia - 2025 Annual Conference: AI ethics with Tom Rossman

Today’s discussion comes from our 2025 Annual Conference, The Rise of AI and Automation. For the next 4 weeks, we’ll feature a series of panel discussions from our conference. Today’s episode is part of our second panel, “Does AI Have an Ethics Problem?”, and will be followed by 2 panels on Practical Applications of AI and AI and Inequality.

Our panel is led by Tom Rossman and was recorded in June of 2025.

Mr. Rossman is a financier and investor, who specializes in developing nations and emerging markets. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Rossman helped establish investment institutions in Turkey, former Soviet Union states, and North Africa. Throughout his career, Tom has helped nations democratize and sustainably develop to bring new opportunities to these regions. He has spoken at conferences across the world, from Baku to London to Houston. He received his bachelor’s degree in history and religious studies from Nyack College and earned his master’s from Tufts in international relations. Currently, he is an advisor to the Telosa Community Foundation; a group hoping to build a futuristic from-scratch city that will revolutionize urban living. 

Together, we discussed Facebook’s complicity in Myanmar’s genocide, why AI is different from previous technologies, and why tech entrepreneurs abandoned their altruistic goals for their innovations.