dialogues

How to diligently organise balanced, global multi-stakeholders discussions? What are good practices, lessons learned, and success factors? In these discussions and topics, how should accountability in the Digital Age be taken in? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue with Latha Reddy is the co-chair of the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace.

Is AI a threat, or an opportunity? Why? What are the benefits? What are the ethical implications to consider and take care of? Which stakeholders should be at the table to discuss this and make it work? How to get society, as a major stakeholder, at the table? What is the European (proposed) AI Act about? How do other regions (re)act to AI with policies? How should human in the loop work? What 21st solutions for the 21st century challenges related to AI can one consider? What kind of obstacles for accountability of design and use of AI are notable? What challenges will the metaverse bring or augment? These and other key topics are addressed in this Dialogue.

Jennifer Woodard is the co-founder and CEO of Insikt Intelligence, a deep-tech startup researching applying AI and Machine Learning to unearth hidden insights within large datasets for customers in the government sector for fighting online crime, disinformation and counterterrorism; as well as the co-founder of Dataietica, a non-profit institute created by AI practitioners and researchers in the Security industry who want to fully realise the potential of new technologies for public safety and policing, while addressing the implications such innovations have in terms of ethics, privacy and human rights. 

Jennifer is a recognized expert in the application of AI for counterterrorism and a frequent speaker on the topic at high-level events. Most recently she addressed the UN Counterterrorism Week on the benefits and human rights implications of AI for counterterrorism. She is also frequently called upon to speak on the topic of ethical AI for security and policing in the EU, US and Israel. 

Her spare time is spent mentoring future female leaders and contributing to the advancement of European technological research through her work as an external expert for the European Commission. She was tapped earlier this year by the UN to be a mentor in the United Nations Development Programme’s mentoring scheme for female entrepreneurs in the Arab region. 

Michael Nelson, Senior Fellow Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Why is free sharing, open source and other access to information so important? Why then are certain organisations (public and private) behaving in the opposite way, and seem to commonly strive for control and blocking information sharing? In what ways is copyright law misused? Is such misuse not merely censorship? Do you think it blocks and otherwise avoid those people and organisations to be accountability? Is balance between copyright versus the right to copy possible? What other problems arise out of invoking copyright? Does copyright actually protect or otherwise empower artists, scientists and other creators? Is it even fit for the Digital Age? What are ways forward do you see? Is providing free copies a problem, or part of the solution? What other measures would help to avoid copyright (law) abuse? This Dialogue covers all these important queries.

Glyn Moody is an independent journalist who has been writing about computer technology for almost 40 years. He is the author of the book ‘Walled Culture’ in this podcast he discusses copyrights and the need to reevaluate its purpose. A free digital version of his book is here: https://walledculture.org/the-book

How should accountable AI be governed, before it is procured and deployed? And how should AI be governed from and during deployment? How to embed and monitor the humanitarian dimension, by design? It that different from having a human-centric approach? What is the definition of the common principles such as: explainability, auditability, responsibility and trustworthiness? How to respect local, regional, cultural or other ethics in global context of AI? Can we use the various AI ethical frameworks and good practices for other emerging technology as well, such as quantum computing? Do governments, politicians and others understand the impact of AI? Do we need new, creative 21st solutions for the 21st century challenges related to AI? What would then be the role of traditional solutions, such as awaiting case law? This Dialogue with Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of AI & Machine Learning and Member of the Executive Committee World Economic Forum covers all these important queries She is also the world’s first Chief AI and Ethics officer.

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