dialogues

What brings AI to the 5 P’s of the UN: people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership? Why will UN set up a separate agency to address AI? Is AI a risk, an opportunity, or both? How to improve the level of understanding of AI by people, policy makers and others? How to improve the level of understanding of people and policy makers by the AI industry? How to improve the ability for recourse and remedies against poorly designed, poorly deployed or poorly used AI? How to make that pro-active and predictive, and not merely retrospective and forensic? What’s the low hanging fruit to address these challenges? And, who should be at the table?

Neil Sahota is an advisor to the UN on AI.

What is the role of Space and the interconnected Space Sector in this Digital Age? What crucial role holds the Space Sector in discussions about accountability? How does the absence of geographical boundaries in Space impacts our digital world? How do we navigate the challenges relating to commercial actors into Space and what impact does that have for planet and societies on Earth? Are there any governance measures in place to ensure safety, security and use of Space technology and applications? What collaborative strategies should we consider to address misconduct and irresponsible practices and improve accountability within the Space sector?

Sharon Lemac-Vincere discusses accountability in space and the parallels with digital

Vint Cerf is Chief Evangelist with Google. He is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet“.

This year it’s the 50th anniversary of the Internet. What are key reflections on the Internet’s immense global impact? What are the origins computer-mediated communication? What role played TCP-IP? What are the main challenges and potential solutions? Can digital transformation drive positive change that are aligned with SDGs? How can we prevent misuse? What skills are required in building responsible, transparent and accountable systems? What are ethical concerns regarding chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs)? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

The interview was originally done for ‘The Brand Called You‘. I4ADA has permission to reuse the recording.

What good can bring robots? How is the convergence robotics and AI changing that? What is the true intent of robotics and robots? Are those developed to assist humans, or to replace them? How to avoid robots are weaponisated, and otherwise can do harm to person or animal? Can an end-user conduit help with that? Who should help with monitoring accountability? How does one get people, also internally in organisations, onboard with accountability before, during and after? And, how embed and obverse accountability in a more-automated manner, in the Digital Age? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

Brendan Schulman is Vice President of Policy & Government Regulations with Boston Dynamics.

What is IoT, and what are consumer IoT products? What data do IoT vendors collect, and which data flows are generated? Why are these often obscure, with no or low levels of accountability? What happens with the data collected by IoT devices? What are possible reasons that vendors not transparant about what they do with customer data? What does that mean for trust and accountability in the IoT ecosystems?

Anna Ida Hudig is a researcher at the University of Cambridge.