dialogues

Yannis Ioannidis is the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In this Dialogue we discuss ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Also, what is the Turing Award about? When computing professionals’ actions change the world, it has a great responsibility. How does it make sure it changes the world while making it a better world, for public good and without negative impact? It being accountable a mere after-thought? What is ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct aiming for? Actual use of any code is critical. So, how to operationalise the Code? And, how to enforce the Code? How to enforce before a breach happens? How to help those professionals becoming appreciative and involved in ethics, and complying to the Code? With that, can for instance AI truly for public good?

What are your main perspectives of accountability? What notions of accountability to you use? How does it add to improving effectiveness of instruments and achieving goals? How to collect knowledge and resources, and how to engage with stakeholders in an inclusive manner? What’s the dynamic dimension to accountability? And what digital aspects and considerations are taken in? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue with Rocio Moreno Lopez is the Executive Director Accountable Now.

Esther George is an Independent Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Specialist and Former Senior Prosecutor for the Crown (UK). In the I4ADA Dialogue she discusses her view on Cyber Crime:

While everybody seems to be aware of cybercrime, why are the amount of cybercrime prosecutions relatively modest? What is the problem with statistics? What are the roles of respectively media, victims and reporting? Would segmenting and otherwise nuancing this vast domain be beneficial? Do these fit in the current rule of law scope and definitions? Is there a difference between cybercrime and cyber-enabled crimes? What are the current key threats in cyber? How to address and counter those? How to make the conversation more diverse and inclusive, and get all at the table?

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A dialogue with James Hodson, CEO AI for Good Foundation 

When focusing on using emerging technologies as enablers for good; what does ‘good’ mean? How to engage academic and research communities to make emerging technologies work, for good? What are the benefits of using emerging technologies, such as the current generation of AI? What are the downsides? What collateral damage one needs to identity and avoid? How to achieve transparent and sustainable net benefits for people, society and planet? How to get those people and societal communities, generally non-technical, on board and interested? How can the various local, regional, international and global NGO and other initiatives find each other, complement each other while also keeping their own focus, sovereignty and accountability?

I4ADA Dialogue with David Jensen, Coordinator of the UNEP (UN Environment Programme) Digital Transformation Programme and Co-champion of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES)

What is the UN environmental programme about? Where does digital transformation come in? How can efficient digital technologies help enable and facilitate? What climate footprint and other environmental implications does the technology industry create? How to come to climate-friendly and otherwise sustainable digital transformation capabilities? What to do about the increasing concentration of power with technologies companies? How to rebalance the growing imbalance of power, even towards the UN itself? What are governance and related accountability examples that redistribute power and benefits? How to make sure the voice of the world population is taken in? Which fora could facilitate the needed convening of multi-stakeholders, at large scale? How to engage these needed large amounts of people? How to correctly and usefully collect and process massive amounts of data and other input, while aiming to accelerate (data for) the SDGs and its targets? This Dialogue dives into these and related important matters.