A+ Alliance

Feminist AI Research Network Global Webinars
2023-08-21 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
What is Feminist AI? And who are the Majority World players creating pro-social AI, designed with inclusion at the core, creating new opportunities & innovative correction of inequities? Join us as we explore concrete applications of these principles throughout 2023-2024.
In our first session, we’ll be delving into Feminist AI Frameworks I : Towards a feminist framework for developing AI: from principles to practice with Derechos Digitales & friends

MENA Hub Third network meeting "Feminist Phenomenology and Applied AI examples in MENA”
2023-08-02 15:30 - 16:30 (Europe/Moscow)
Joining us in our webinar as a speaker is Aliah Yacoub, an AI and Philosophy scholar. She is currently the head of techQualia at Synapse Analytics. Her research interests include employing existential phenomenology to explore the dynamic entanglement of body and mind in consciousness, machine sentience, and artificial cognition.
In this webinar, Aliah will be discussing the connection of feminism, social justice, and AI in the region from a philosophical point of view. She will also provide examples of the challenges associated with the use of applied AI in the region and the role of feminist theoretical frameworks in promoting gender equality and mitigating discrimination and biases.
Registeration link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvf-qsqjwtHNOG7ccJjwPIUrgDFTzJuI82

La Independiente: Gender perspectives in AI crowd work
2023-07-27 10:00 - 13:00, 2023-07-26 10:00 - 2023-07-27 13:00 UTC
In order to function, algorithms require millions of labeled training data to learn, recognize and categorize information. This labeling is often done by crowd workers who are neglected in system designs and whose well being is seldom considered. Latin American and Caribbean workers have been identified as significant crowd work contributors depending on crowd work as a steady source of income. However most studies on crowd work center around Western women and fail to take into account the personal and professional advancement of Latin American women.
PIT Policy are holding a forum on feminist design with crowdworkers, platforms and experts discussing what needs to change and what can be done to improve the quality of experience for AI crowd workers in LAC and throughout the globe.
Crowd Work Platform Forum: Policy Perspectives Forum

Day One Wednesday 26th, July 2023, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Mexico City time

Day Two Thursday 27th, July 2023, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Mexico’s City time

Format: Online (Zoom)

To confirm your participation, please register here

Alliance @RightsCon
2023-06-05 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica
We’ll be attending RightsCon with much of our leadership, many of our colleagues, discussing Digital Rights issues and their intersection with Feminist AI…as well as celebrating with co-leaders of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms – Tecnologico de Costa Rica !

AI Transparency Resolution Strategy Session
2023-06-04 15:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica
A strategy session with allies to discuss the proposed draft.
Resolution on Upholding the Human Right to Transparency in Algorithmic Decision-Making: Empowering Individuals to Know When Their Lives Are Impacted by Automated Systems.

Alliance Leadership Retreat
2023-06-01 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Chachagua, Costa Rica

AI4D: Gender & Climate Change
2023-05-25 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
Gender Justice / Climate Justice approaches. What mitigation and adaptation strategies and innovations are needed?

f< A+I >r Dinner with Subgrantees & Allies @RightsCon
2023-05-23 00:00 - 03:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Costa Rica, Costa Rica

7th ASIA Network Meting
2023-05-15 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
The upcoming ASIA Network Meeting will feature the winning team of the recently concluded Feminist AI Hackathon, which has held last March. The team, consisting of a recent Bachelor’s graduate in psychology from Chulalongkorn University and a high school student from Boston, Massachusetts, will talk about their project, “Eudaimonium”, an app that follows the feminist principles outlined in our Project.

The talk will take place on Monday, May 15, 2023, from 8 pm to 9 pm Thailand time (UTC +7) on Zoom. Details are available in the next poster:

Fair Webinar: Procurement
2023-05-04 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
What would open, inclusive and gender responsive AI procurement policies look like? And how could they help jumpstart a new innovation economy that finally might harness the intellectual capital of <50% of the population?

AI4D: Gender & Agriculture
2023-04-27 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
What are the problems? Where are the gaps? How can it help women and men in the field?

Meet our new f<a+i>r cohort of papers & prototypes
2023-04-13 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
Our newest f<a+i>r cohort of papers & prototypes from around the world have begun their work are ready to share their research questions and mission with you!

Feminist AI : Where have we been this year, what have we built, and how are we going forward - Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro
2023-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Allies in Practice
https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2023/talk/WGU3RP/

fr Prototypes: The Feminist AI Research Network Great Reveal - Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro
2023-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris) | Autonomy & Governance
https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2023/talk/XZURXJ/

Decolonialism, Feminism & AI - Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro
2023-03-21 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
https://pretalx.com/mozilla-festival-2023/talk/T3PHNK/

AI4D: Gender, AI, and New STEM strategies
2023-03-16 14:30 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris)
From distance learning to gamification, what is the newest research on including girls in STEM, including Teacher Ed and Lifelong Kindergarten / Scratch for low resource environments.

<AI & Equality> Inclusive Human Rights Frameworks for New Technologies
2023-03-09 14:30 - 16:00 UTC
How can Human Rights Frameworks be the starting point for the creation of new tech & innovation? What questions need to be asked and answered to harness the astounding capabilities of AI with its promises of dystopia or utopia? Can Human Rights Frameworks bring us to some middle ground?

Algorithmic Decision Making: Call for Expressions of Interest
2023-02-14
Algorithmic Decision Making systems are being used around the globe. What are new models for delivering and deploying more effective social protection? How can AI with its big data capacity and new social science collaborate “to ensure a higher standard of living for the vulnerable and disadvantaged, to devise new ways of caring for those who have been left behind, and more effective techniques for addressing the needs of those who are struggling to enter or re-enter the labour market” ? Join us to hear about our Call.
This call focuses on Algorithmic Decision Making Systems (ADMs) in LAC, SEA and MENA for those whose municipalities and countries currently use ADMs and also for those whose municipalities and countries currently contemplate their use.
Led by the <A+> Alliance, a network of technologists, academics & activists working together to ensure new algorithmic systems do not embed already biased systems into our collective futures, our mission is to explore new models that reach beyond mitigation of bias and correct for historic inequity in order to help ensure a more fair, just and inclusive collective future for all.
DUE DATE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 14 2023! APPLY NOW!

Call for Expressions of Interest Papers:
Proof of Concept for NEW models of ADMs delivery that could address:

Social Service Allocation

Housing lotteries
School allocation
Aid to families with children
Pension allocation

Sector Specific Innovation

Health
Financial credit scoring
Energy sharing
Commons or collective models of governance

Call for Expression of Interest Policies:
Automated Decision Making Policy based on 21st century social science best practices:

Procurement processes
Government transparency laws
Algorithmic auditing
Open government and community based co-creation of ADMs,etc.

Call for Expression of Interest PROTOTYPES:
Prototypes: Past the proof of concept phase and ready to be built and deployed
These prototypes will provide a NEW model of ADMs delivery and have a strong interdisciplinary team inclusive of a social scientist, technologist, community organisers, and a collaboration with or proposed with a municipality to test the prototype.

The Call for Expressions of Interest is part of the f<a+i>r feminist AI research network, supported by IDRC, a three-year initiative (2021-2024) to research and create new algorithmic and social science models that enhance intersection with core public policy agendas in the Global South.

Fair Prototypes: The Feminist AI Research Network Great Reveal
2023-02-09 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
Meet, discuss, try, question, contribute to the three f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network Prototypes developed from papers in 2022 and now built and delivered in February 2023. Meet the activist teams and their practical, applied, and potentially world changing feminist creations. Help us improve, spread the word, iterate, replicate and share!
INSIDE:

Data Género’s AymurAI Automation Tools towards a Feminist Judiciary Reform in Argentina and Mexico
Via Libre’s tool to overcome and democratize technical barriers for bias assessment in human language technologies
Derechos Digitales’ Feminist framework for AI development: from principles to practice,

These are amazing projects built by 3 mighty Latin American NGOs.
For more info on the projects:
Explainers:
AymurAI http://e.google.com/file/d/1xxz5g562J_ZM3zecY0VmXfHfO53Tggaj/view
Via Libre https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSjGBc7oFRhuVGPbk-U4sWnWGh432ZuT/view
Derechos Digitales https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pMd6ys22yU
Original Papers:
Data Género https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKeeSdJz6-8DoEbetQ8f1wTH1ORqvIXV/view?usp=sharing
Via Libre https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ppdf6K8p4rYv5U-MLUql4o7fwTpoKheW/view?usp=sharing
Derechos Digitales https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/Fair_Doc_Eng.pdf
Not only do we live and breathe this subject, but these three activist organizations are bringing some world changing ideas and feminist principles to the table. Socialising the idea of Feminist AI designed with inclusion at the core of the code, and building prototypes with concrete research that needs to be shared in order to be used, improved, iterated, replicated, and inspire the the inter-disciplinary, inter-regional inter-operative collaborations needed to bring the technology we need in order to leave no one behind.
We actively work daily with a large global multi disciplinary team ranging from Bangkok to Cairo, Geneva to Mexico City and San Jose with fellow travellers in Manila, Jakarta, Kampala, Dakar, Abuja, Cape Town, and Buenos Aires from computer science, machine learning, NLP, anthropology, economics, behavioural psychology, STS, social work, development and activists in indigenous rights, workers rights, and women’s rights.. We are social scientists, technologists, policy wonks, and activists.

The Second Meeting: ‘Algorithmic Decision Making (ADM), Feminism and Inclusion in MENA: Unpacking Concepts and Call for proposals
2023-02-08 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Speakers: Manal Jalloul and Nadine Weheba
Moderator: Nagla Rizk
Date: February 8th, 2023
The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) hosted its second webinar as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) hub of the F<a+i>r Hubs Network titled “Algorithmic Decision Making (ADM), Feminism and Inclusion in MENA: Unpacking Concepts and Call for proposals” on Wednesday February 8th via Zoom. Joining the webinar as a speaker was Dr. Manal Jalloul (Founder of AI Lab and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, Certified Instructor and University Ambassador at the American University of Beirut). Dr. Jalloul unpacked concepts of ADM and discussed how it can be harnessed for gender inclusion in MENA. We also discussed the project’s latest call for proposals, titled: “Incubating Feminist AI: Call for Expressions of Interest Algorithmic Decision Making Systems”. The call focuses on harnessing ADM for more equitable outcomes and models deploying more effective and inclusive social protection in MENA.

Key takeaways:

It all goes back to data. Due to historical norms and gender discrimination, there is bias in the data available that is used to create and train ADM systems. Data needs to be more inclusive and representative for ADM systems to work fairly.

Bias exists in the design of the algorithms themselves; algorithms are designed by people with gender-biases. The teams that develop these solutions need to be diverse in order to prevent human biases from impacting the technology.

ADMs have the potential to help meet SDGs such as equal health, gender equality and ending domestic violence.

AI can be used to identify inequalities in data and ADM systems. AI and ADM systems must be tested prior to deployment and before using them on a wider scale. We can use AI to test new technologies to ensure that there are no biases of treatment.

AI policy-making in MENA needs to be data driven in order for policies to inform our unique needs as a region. AI can be used to extract insights from data such as correlations, gaps, inequalities and areas that need attention. We can also use AI to gather data on the impact of policies implemented and make modifications accordingly.

Once datasets are diverse, they can then include the scope of women who are usually outside of national statistics and data sets such as those in the informal economy whose data cannot be found in national statistics.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_f5BDm_dg

Algorithmic Decision Making (ADM), Feminism and Inclusion in MENA: Unpacking Concepts and Call for proposals
2023-02-08 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) is hosting its second webinar as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) hub of the F<a+i>r Hubs Network titled “Algorithmic Decision Making (ADM), Feminism and Inclusion in MENA: Unpacking Concepts and Call for proposals” on Wednesday 8th February at 3:00 pm Cairo local time via Zoom.

Joining the webinar as a speaker is Dr. Manal Jalloul (Founder of AI Lab and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, Certified Instructor and University Ambassador at the American University of Beirut). Dr. Jalloul will be unpacking concepts of ADM and discussing how it can be harnessed for gender inclusion in MENA. We will also be discussing the project’s latest call for proposals, titled: “Incubating Feminist AI: Call for Expressions of Interest Algorithmic Decision Making Systems”. The call focuses on harnessing ADM for more equitable outcomes and models deploying more effective and inclusive social protection in MENA.

Register here: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuc-Csqz4rGNKyOo_VvkvxwOmX4aPGJHqN

Data Bias
2023-01-26 14:30 - 15:30 UTC
From new datasets to debasing techniques

What’s the news from Africa? And what are the solutions being developed there? The start of our new webinar series with AI4D sharing the work of extraordinary African AI researchers with their counterparts and the world.

INSIDE: Algorithms based on incomplete, corrupt or biased data; models built from those algorithms that have other additional stereotypical assumptions of gender, race and class at their core; machines that learn on and codify these ingrained patterns; and the neural networks that detect more complex patterns and newly proxy old stereotypical assumptions — are wiring historic bias, inequality and discrimination into our new systems. These will evolve into more effective, and more difficult to dismantle, digital colonial and patriarchal social structures and governance if we do not act now.

However, this situation presents an opportunity as new systems proliferate and are being designed—to revisit old assumptions and conceive provision of social services with ideas of efficacy and equity at the core — instead of only using the ADM process to digitize old programs opting perhaps for only making them more ‘efficient’.
A Feminist AI would focus on bringing social programs in line with 21st research and values, dedicated to finding ways to make the programs more effective (inclusive, transformational) as opposed to merely more ‘efficient’.

AI4D Webinars: Gender Knowledge Synthesis
Concept: Sharing the work of extraordinary African AI researchers with their counterparts and the world, focussing on issues of primordial importance to create a more inclusive and equitable world with AI and emerging technologies.

Where: Online / Zoom
When: Every 6 weeks
Who: African researchers from the AI4D family and researchers from Africa working on complementary issues.
What: 45 minute Roundtable with Panel format. 5 minute landscape presentations with moderated discussion followed by Q&A

Labors of Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies from the Philippines
2023-01-19 15:00 - 16:30 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
The sixth episode of the Asia Network Meetings will take place on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 3.00pm Thailand time (UBC +7) on Zoom.
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Dimatulac Santos
Duration: 90 minutes (3pm to 4.30pm)
About Stephanie:
Dr. Stephanie Dimatulac Santos is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her interdisciplinary research employs ethnography, cultural analysis, and computational humanities to study the flows of labor and capital between Southeast Asia and the Global North. She has a PhD in Gender Studies from UCLA and is currently a Fulbright ASEAN Research Fellow with the Center for the Study of Technology and Society at Chulalongkorn University

Zoom info:
Soraj Hongladarom is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Labors of Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies from the Philippines
Time: Jan 19, 2023 15:00 Bangkok
Join Zoom Meeting
https://chula.zoom.us/j/91540574886?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 915 4057 4886
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The Tech We Need & Global Roundtable
2022-12-15 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
The Tech We Need is the <A+> Alliance commitment to the Generation Equality Forum UN Women Action Coalition for Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality. A small pilot has begun in Erizo Santamaria near Tec Costa Rica’s Alajuela campus. Guests to be announced.

Incubating Feminist AI: MENA f<a+i>r Hub’s First Network Meeting
2022-12-14
Speakers: Soraj Hongladarom, Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Nadine Moawad, Nagla Rizk and Amira Salah-
Ahmed.
Moderator: Nadine Weheba
Date: Wednesday, Dec 14th 2022
The first Middle East and North Africa (MENA) f<a+i>r Hub’s network meeting was held on Wednesday
14th Dec 2022 at 3.30pm Cairo local time via Zoom. The Access to Knowledge for Development Center
(A2K4D) at the American University in Cairo, School of Business introduced the f<a+i>r Hubs Network
and brought together key stakeholders in MENA in an action-oriented conversation on how new
technologies such as AI can be harnessed to address MENA’s most pressing developmental problems
with focus on gender inclusion.

Key issues discussed:

Digital and analogue divides are intertwined and can be exacerbated by AI.

Feminists need to invest their efforts in proactively creating the future that we want to live in rather than just reacting.

AI can play a role in promoting awareness of the way technology can be intertwined with socioeconomic problems and can be utilized for achieving equality and justice.

What is coming for humanity is impossible to predict, but it is necessary to try all approaches to ensure the future is fair for women.

There are high level plans on investing in AI for smart cities, pensions, healthcare etc. in the region and in Egypt in particular however there are not enough women or youth present at these tables. No one is currently looking at AI with a feminist lens.

There is a huge disconnect between those working in feminist spaces and those working in tech. We need to bring both groups together to share knowledge and have discussions. We also need to include major stakeholders involved in decision and policy making

There is an urgent need to build an open data platform that hosts data sets from the MENA region to produce AI models for the MENA region instead of relying on tech produced by the West.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5mNxb2wsY&t=3s

Day Zero: Global Tour of Feminist AI: One Year On
2022-11-28 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
<A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms:
One year into our Global project on Feminist AI where are we ? What have we accomplished?
Join our <A+> Alliance global group as we discuss where we have been and new paths forward.
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, Women At The Table/
Jaime Gutérriez Alfaro, Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Nagla Rizk, American University Cairo/
Soraj Hongladoram, Chulalongkorn University
Supavadee Aramwith, Chulalongkorn University
Laure Tall, IPAR & GRAIN
Ernest Mwebaze, Sunbird AI & GRAIN
Feminist AI‘s goal is AI and Algorithmic Decision-Making that transforms – harnessed to deliver equality outcomes; designed with inclusion at the core; creating new opportunities; focussed on proactive, innovative correction of inequities.
Our Alliance seeks to catalyze a global conversation on algorithms that includes gender, race, class and region at the core of the code. It looks beyond the important privacy and surveillance conversation to a restructuring of power dynamics.
It takes a life cycle approach to data and ML regarding creation, collection, deployment and evolution of emerging tech that keeps rights-based approaches firmly at their center. These rights include economic and social rights often less explored in traditional libertarian models of digital rights which have excluded the most marginalized from the conversation and control of their data and destiny.

Inclusive Algorithms (<A+>) that challenge old models and create new interdisciplinary avenues for systems change in data, technology and AI practices are needed in order to correct real-life bias and barriers that prevent individuals, especially women and youth of the Global South, Black, Indigenous and People of Color from creation, development + deployment of AI systems. This exclusion exacerbates and enables digital colonialism.
There are critical connections between Feminist AI, Decolonial AI, Indigenous AI and data rights movements.
This global, multidisciplinary panel is meant to inspire and nurture new and old movements who must now work together with the potential to positively transform lives at scale. What is Feminist AI? Why do we need it, and how is it an integral yet missing part of the global internet conversation? How can it create fundamental change in economic + social systems and human rights? How can we catalyze this global movement from the global south to incorporate those who have been traditionally excluded.
<A+ > Alliance leaders + AI4D Africa will share research, policy and technology innovation that can help us leave no one behind, and to thrive.
We launched at IGF 2021 and now have papers & prototypes to share. Where are we at Year One in this journey across the Global South?
SDG 5 is the core of our work, although we believe Gender Equality is a transversal goal and with Climate Change (with which we work closely) are the two SDGs to truly cut across all the 17 SDGs. In particular we are involved in partnership SDG 17; working to integrate Climate Change AI with transformative gender equality AI SDG 13; Inclusive transportation in mega-cities and urban settlements. SDG 11; policy work on gender responsive AI at the national, regional, and international level SDG 9, etc.

Beyond the Concept: Feminist Foreign Policy in Action
2022-11-12 16:15 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Plans for a feminist foreign policy have been put in place by several countries over the past decade. However, international statistics tell us that the inclusion of women in international decision-making and negotiation mechanisms is often insufficient: in 2022, women ambassadors average only 21.6% in the world’s 40 largest economies (AGDA Women in Diplomacy Index 2022). Ensuring that women play a key role in discussions and decision-making processes in the different fields of diplomacy could truly take into account women’s voices and rights and make international governance more inclusive. The speakers in this session will present the assets and outcomes that a sustainable feminist foreign policy could ensure, while making diplomacy more effective and legitimate. In this spirit, they will explore strategies to move from theory to practical realization of feminist foreign policies and to promote their articulation, promotion, and implementation, through examples of good practices from different regions of the world.
This roundtable is an interactive format gathering around 25 high-level and expert participants to exchange on a topic of common interest. After initial contributions from designated speakers (see below) to frame the issues to be discussed and challenges to be tackled, participants are invited to take the floor on a voluntary basis to share ideas, inputs, and lead the discussion towards common understandings and solutions.
Moderator:

Meredith Preston McGhie, Secretary General, Global Center for Pluralism
Ms. Anisha Chugh, Executive Director, Women’s Fund Asia
Ms. Eunice Musiime, Executive Director, Akina Mama wa Afrika
Ms. Hannah Neumann, Initiator, Member of the European Parliament, #SHEcurity
Ms. Lyric Thompson, Vice President of Policy, Advocacy and Strategy, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
Ms. Ambika Vishwanath, Founder Director, Kubernein Initiative
Ms. Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO Founder, Women At The Table

Making AI Work for International Development Roundtable
2022-11-11 14:45 - 15:45 (Europe/Paris)
AI tools stand to reshape the field of international development, raising questions regarding the appropriateness, efficacy, and ethics of such systems and applications. The introduction of AI into the already complex ecosystem requires serious consideration of fairness and equity, explainability and accountability, and the limitations of the data sets upon which AI platforms will rely. What ethical principles and regulatory standards should be applied to maximize positive impact while holding development agencies, corporate vendors, and foreign governments accountable? What is AI’s potential to contribute to addressing top development challenges? During this roundtable, representatives of civil society and governments will engage with international development experts and leaders to discuss the applications and limitations of AI in their field, to help identify best practices and future policy priorities in ethically and equitably applying AI in development.
Moderator:
Dr. Aubra Anthony, Senior Fellow, Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Speakers:

Jeremy Springman, Senior Research Associate, DevLab@Penn, University of Pennsylvania
Fabrizio Scrollini, Director Ejecutivo, Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)
Gianluca Misuraca, Team Leader and Senior Expert in Technology Diplomacy, International Outreach for Human-centric AI
Marielza Oliviera, Director for Partnerships, UNESCO
Rajamanohar Somasundaram, Founder & CEO, Aqua Connect Blue
Jun-E Tan, Senior Research Associate, Khazanah Research Institute
Dr. William Wasswa, Technical Member, African Union High-Level Panel on Emerging Technologies
Urvashi Aneja, Director, Digital Futures Lab
Other participants :
Hilde Hardeman, Director-General of the Publications Office of the EU
Jean Quérait, CEO, The IO Foundation
Merih Angin, Assistant Professor, Koç University
Shmyla Khan, Policy Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Rachel Adams, Principal Researcher, Research, ICT Africa
Rachel Gong, Deputy Director, Khazanah Research Institute
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO and Founder, Women at the Table
Dave Lewis, Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin

Managing AI Risk: Perspectives from Around the World
2022-11-11 11:15 - 12:15 (Europe/Paris)
This session is co-organized with the OECD.AI
Format
Interactive discussion of speakers and other participants, facilitated by the moderator, concluding with questions from the audience.
Topic
Many potential risks associated with artificial intelligence have been identified and as capabilities mature, risks will grow in scale and scope. The EU AI Act proposes to address this through a proportionate system of regulation, with flexible mechanisms to enable dynamic adaptability to changing situations. The US administration, at the same time, just proposed an AI Bill of Rights and is also developing a voluntary risk management framework. Does the understanding of the risks posed by AI converge or diverge across these jurisdictions? Furthermore, what is the conception of AI risk as seen from the Global South, and how are Global South actors’ interests and concerns reflected in these emerging norms? With AI risk assessments tied deeply to societies’ values, policy makers and AI experts from across the world will explore what level of global consensus can be achieved to effectively govern AI risk. Is global interoperability an achievable goal, and, if not, what will be the implications?
Moderator:
Ms. Elina Noor, Director, Political-Security Affairs, Asia Society Policy Institute
Speakers:

Ms. Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO
Ms. Karine Perset, Head of OECD.AI, OECD
Mr. Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee, McGovern Foundation
Ms. Elham Tabassi, Chief of Staff, NIST, Department of Commerce
Ms. Lucilla Sioli, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, European Commission
Dr. Rachel Adams, Principal Researcher, Research ICT Africa
Ms. Nighat Dad, Founder and Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
Ms. María Paz Canales, International Affairs Coordinator, Derechos Digitales
Ms. Peggy Hicks, Director of Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR)
Nicolas Miailhe, Co-Founder and President, The Future Society
Stephanie Ifayemi, Head of Policy, Partnership on AI
Lourdes Montenegro, Director of Research and Digitisation, World Benchmarking Alliance,
Gry Hasselbalch, Key Expert in AI Ethics, InTouchAI.eu
Caitlin Kraft-Buchman, CEO and Founder, Women at the Table
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm, Founder, Artificial Mind
