Organisation: IRI (Swedish Research Institute)
Timing: 11:45 - 13:00 on 27 January 2021 - Online 2
The development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within all domains of business, society, and governance has accelerated in recent years. Although current debate chiefly focuses on the economic consequences of AI, there is a growing awareness of the broader societal impacts of AI, especially the unequal ways in which the benefits and harms may be distributed across populations and geographies. This panel will bring perspectives from four continents on the societal impacts of AI, focusing on salient concerns and governance approaches in the respective regions. The aim is to leverage globally diverse viewpoints, and practical experience, and thereby contribute to the development of a shared understanding and more harmonized research efforts in addressing the societal impacts of AI technologies.
• What are the salient concerns and drivers of the AI governance discourse in your region? Who are the main stakeholders in the discourse and what are their aspirations?
• How has the policy response been so far? Has there been any law/legislation, standard or guidelines addressing the concerns?
• What effect is the COVID-19 pandemic having on the AI governance discourse? Has it intensified the urgency to deploy AI technologies as much as the need for regulatory responses?
• What do you think other regions can learn from the initiatives and responses in your region? How do you see (and hope to see) the discourse developing in your region in the coming 5-10 years?
Panellist
Moderator:
Samson Esayas, associate professor, Nordic Center for Internet and Society, BI Norwegian Business School (NO)
Speaker 1: European Union perspective – Sofia Ranchordas, Professor of Public Law and a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen (NL).
Speaker 2: US perspective– Adam Nagy, project coordinator of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School's, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (US).
Speaker 3: Australian and Asia Pacific perspective – Angela Daly, associate professor, Strathclyde Law School & co-director of the Strathclyde Centre for Internet Law & Policy (UK).
Speaker 4: Latin America perspective – Celina Bottino Beatriz, Director at the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) and Darcy Vargas Foundation. Associate of the Children’s and Adolescent’s Rights Protection in Rio de Janeiro (BR).
