Photos: Jamie Isaacs
What
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly advancing, significantly impacting humanity. Therefore, inclusive participation in guiding its development, at global and local levels, is urgently needed. Our side event presented an initiative aiming at deploying a deliberative process on AI which engaged thousands of citizens of the world representative of the diversity of the global population.
The goal was for the dialogue to feed into, respond to the demands of, and otherwise support the existing ecosystem of global AI governance processes: The Global Digital Compact as being discussed in the Summit for the Future, The International Telecommunication Union’s ‘AI for Good’ initiative, the UN High Level Advisory Body on AI’s Report’s first two Guiding Principles that 1) AI must be governed “inclusively, by and for the benefit of all” and that it 2) must benefit the public interest of “all citizens, including those in the Global South”.
During the Side event, we presented the core idea of the coalition, and the timeline for 2024-2025. We then opened the discussion with the audience to start exploring possible topics and governance options.
Who
The co-initiator of the project are Missions Publiques and Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab. The event is hosted by 1014.
Missions Publiques is a world-leading organization in the field of complex deliberative processes involving ordinary citizens and stakeholders. We work on governance for the 21st Century (http://missionspubliques.com / www.wetheinternet.org). We have run 1300+ mini-publics and Citizens' Assemblies in 120+ countries gathering randomly selected citizens in deliberative processes.
The Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling. This research has now produced more than 150 cases in countries around the world on every inhabited continent. For more on Deliberative Polling® see http://deliberation.stanford.edu.
VENUE ACCESSIBILITY
Unfortunately, Serendipity Labs is not fully accessible, and requires a flight of stairs to access this event space. We apologize to our guests and kindly ask you to contact j.isaacs@1014.nyc if you need further information or assistance. We will do our best to enable everyone to join us.