Two former White House AI policy advisors, along with over 150 AI academics, researchers and policy practitioners, have signed a new “Statement on AI Harms and Policy” published by ACM FaaCT (the Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency) which is currently holding its annual conference in Chicago. Alondra Nelson, former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and acting director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a former White House advisor for the “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” both signed the statement.