In her essay Disclosure Dilemmas: AI Transparency is no Quick Fix https://ash.harvard.edu/disclosure-dilemmas-ai-transparency-no-quick-fix, Mary Graham argues that transparency measures can help curtail AI-related risks but not overnight - transparency efforts require sustained, long-term engagement and effort.

In early 2020, as the risks of exposure to the COVID virus were becoming clear, restaurants and other businesses responded in varied ways that gave more or less protection to customers and employees. But protection measures often remained hidden. We suggested in a 6/9/20 Los Angeles Times article that the government should quickly create a simple rating system to inform the public about which businesses offered excellent protection.

The Secrets of the Oval Office. Peter Kann, a former CEO of Dow Jones and Pulitzer Prize winner, reviewed Mary Graham’s latest book in the Wall Street Journal. Read the article.

PBS NewsHour segment. Mary W. Graham speaks about how presidential secrets have shaped U.S. history. Watch.

Mary W. Graham on NPR’s Fresh Air. On Presidents’ Day, Fresh Air host Terry Gross spoke to Mary W. Graham about her book and the boundaries of presidential secrecy. Download the podcast.

Check out the West Wing Weekly podcast. Listen (download or stream) to the March 14, 2017 episode of The West Wing Weekly to hear Mary W. Graham talk about how presidents have kept secret details about the state of their health from the public.

Video of Roosevelt House event. Mary W. Graham, introduced by Jim Lehrer and interviewed by her son Will Wissler Graham at the Roosevelt House on 3/6/17. Watch the video below.

Mary W. Graham talked about her book with Think’s host Krys Boyd on Kera FM in Texas. Listen to the interview here.

Mary W. Graham talked about the book with Here and Now’s host Jeremy Hobson. Listen to the interview.

Ashcast: Listen to a conversation about Presidents' Secrets, with Mary W. Graham and Archon Fung, Academic Dean and Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at the Harvard Kennedy School. (Both are co-directors of the Ash Center’s Transparency Policy Project.)

Secrets and good governance focus of panel at Harvard. Mary W. Graham, with Brookings Institution fellow Norman L. Eisen and Kennedy School Academic Dean Archon Fung, participated in a discussion entitled “Presidential Secrecy from Washington to Trump” at the Harvard Kennedy School. Read the article in the Harvard Gazette which provides details about the discussion.

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