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Consortium for AI Progress and Preparedness
The Consortium for AI Progress and Preparedness (CAPP) encourages cross-disciplinary conversations to navigate the societal impact of AI.
AI is leading headlines and discussions, from encroaching data centers to ever-evolving tools and management expectations. We need to consider how decisions and actions will affect fields and job roles across the board, in order to ensure efficiency and resilience, as well as balance and collective action.
We are seeing only the tip of the iceberg with AI, and the rest will emerge. We will be better positioned and prepared if we navigate those waters together, with strategic communication, collaboration, and action.
CAPP is pro-progress. The goal is not to slow AI down. It is to make sure the institutions and safety nets needed to absorb its disruption exist in time to matter.
One conversation
Aligning parallel conversations
for structure, action, and resilience
AI's disruption is one challenge that cannot be summarized or siloed. At present, most disciplines are crafting and sharing their own version of a solution. These conversations and decisions are happening in parallel, and often without those most affected at the table.
Rather than one conversation taking place, policy makers are mapping governance gaps while HR teams consider which careers will be enhanced and which made obsolete. If decisions are made collectively, policy recommendations can draw on input from those affected, and a framework with structure can take shape.
Government, however well-intentioned, often gets its framing from the people with the most access, who tend to be the people with the most at stake in the outcome.
An independent, cross-disciplinary table may be the best way to ask questions that few people currently have a financial interest in answering.
Economic
Labor displacement, safety net design, and fiscal preparedness for disruption across several sectors at once.
Social and Psychological
How AI changes human connection, dependency, and identity, including its effects on children and adolescents.
Institutional
Governance capacity and legislative readiness, translated across fields so decision-makers have the reasoning before the moment of crisis.
All of these dimensions compound one another, which is why CAPP studies them together rather than one field at a time.
Daniel Lorca
Founder of CAPP
Daniel Lorca's career is deeply rooted in technology, including 15 years with Apple Inc., where he worked across multiple domains at the intersection of security, privacy, and user experience. He was instrumental in developing Low Power Mode for the iPhone and also led the launch of Siri in Brazil and Singapore.
He has continually created bridges that connect people from different fields to advance progress. Today, Lorca is focused on building the cross-disciplinary systems that are increasingly needed as AI evolves and presents new challenges and opportunities.
His passion for founding the Consortium for AI Progress and Preparedness grew after he moderated a 2024 panel on "AI and Ethics" for the international Luminate competition. Lorca believes CAPP is the effort this moment requires.
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