Towards an Inclusive Future in AI

In this workshop, we will guide the participants through an open ideation hands-on session using the Policy Kitchen method to address the question of how we can ensure the participation and inclusion of all relevant voices and minds in global AI research and innovation?.
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It is hard to find a cluster of technologies that might change our societies more in the coming decades than artificial intelligence. In the past two years, more than 20 countries and several international fora, including the UN, EU, G7, and OECD, have produced strategies, principles, and guidelines on the ethical development and governance of AI. While practically all of them stress the importance of “inclusion,” “multi-stakeholder cooperation” and “participation” to ensure beneficial outcomes for people and the planet, few explain what it means in practice or offer concrete solutions to do so.

To respond to this gap, foraus, the swissnex Network, and AI Commons are launching the initiative “Towards an Inclusive Future in AI” as part of the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva on May 28-31, 2019. Using foraus’ Policy Kitchen crowdsourcing methodology, we aim to collect ideas for initiatives, models, and policies fostering the inclusion of diverse voices and minds in AI. We will explore the research, development, and governance aspects of inclusion, as all are crucial to realizing this principle in practice.

This workshop is the first one of a series of international workshops that will take place in San Francisco, Bangalore, Nairobi, Boston, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and will culminate at the AI for Good summit in Geneva.