Enabling Ethical AI for Present and Future Generations in a Time of Heightened Global Insecurity is a side event of the 3rd UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI. This mini-symposium addresses a range of urgent questions in the present era of global turbulence and heightened insecurity.
The symposium foregrounds questions on the potential of developing ethical AI systems that can promote human security, safeguard the integrity of social-ecological systems at risk due to threats of anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction, and build social cohesion through scientific and AI literacy, futures literacy, education and training initiatives capable of preparing populations for the challenges of the 21st century.
This event acknowledges, on the one hand, the enormous opportunities AI offers for mitigating vulnerabilities and constructively reorienting international cooperation across numerous sectors. These sectors include the fields of multilateralism, policymaking and governance, civil society, education, science, technology and innovation, and of course those sectors and areas where AI has seen the most profound and visible proliferation in the past few years—those of business, industry, social use and consumer behaviour.
On the other hand, the session will also foreground the grhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZkgsiPw5n0owing need and collective obligation of actors from each of these sectors to ensure viable pathways for the ethical development of technological solutions as guided, augmented and facilitated by AI in what can only be described as the breathtaking pace at which current technological and market forces have unfolded in spurring the development of AI during the current decade of the 2020s.
A quarter of the way through the 21st century, the agreements, targets and ambitions of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement are not close to being met. How can ethical AI help to scale up the meeting of these goals, while always recognizing and remaining committed to the human rights, dignity and autonomous potential of all citizens of the world/inhabitants of the Earth?
UNESCO AI for Environment and Ecosystems Toolkit for Policymakers - BRIDGES
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Q&A: How to build AI that enhances human and planetary well-being UNESCO BRIDGES' Steven Hartman on data, culture and the ethical challenges of AI - By Richard Harth
Speakers
The event will take place both at the site of the 3rd UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI (Centara Grand in Bangkok) and online on 23 June, 1 pm to 6 pm local time (UTC+ 7 hours).
Online registration via this link is required for both forms of attendance.
Full program details are also available on the registration page. Attendance is free of charge. RSVP while available space lasts.
(Full program details, including venue, time and registration link, are forthcoming in the days ahead—please check back for these details).
Outcome Document: Seeding-Ethical-AI-Stewardship-for-Shared-Global-Futures.pdf
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