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What does the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the United Nations (UN) Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) do? How can artificial intelligence and robotics improve fighting crime in this Digital Age? How to cater for future-proof law enforcement? What new and emerging technologies are visible on and envisioned over the horizon? How to use those responsibly? And how to minimize bias and other risks of using AI and other technological capabilities? What guidelines and good practices are provided or developed? Is accountability also one of the main principles and requirements? How to balance out the rule of law in this Digital Age to the ongoing technological developments, and make those future-proof? What are the reasons to be optimistic about the current and upcoming technological developments, and the future in general? These and other essential queries are explored in this Dialogue with Irakli Beridze

What is the difference between illegal hate speech, and legal hate speech? How free is the freedom of expression, and what are its thresholds? Can, and if so, how could technology help guarding these thresholds of what is freedom of expression, and what is not? How to arrange for more transparency by digital media platforms so their ways of acting or not acting to protect the freedom of expression can be monitored? What kind of transparency would one need, to cater for a higher level of accountability of the various stakeholders? How to arrange for that beyond national or regional jurisdictions, in a global perspective? What is the role of individuals and organisations? Are they aware and empowered sufficiently? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue with Guilherme Canela, Chief of Section – Freedom of Expression and Journalist Safety at UNESCO.

Why can technology not work without democracy and rule of law? What is the state of play regarding the rise power of technology, and related rise of economic power? How to control technological power? How to preserve our democracy and quality of life, and increase their resilience. Can rule of law compatible technology actually support such preservation? How to make engineers aware that what they build has (direct or indirect) adverse impact on democracy and the quality of life. How to make sure they understand their ethical and societal responsibility and accountability of what is built? How to raise the understanding of technology and related powers of politicians, civil servants and other policy making stakeholders? How to get more engineers and other science, technology and interdisciplinary knowledge onboard in those policy making domains? This Dialogue with Paul Nemitz dives into these and related important matters.

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