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Keynote title: Operationalising Trustworthy AI Governance: Beyond Motherhood and Apple Pie?
In recent years, ‘AI ethics’ codes have proliferated from a wide variety of sources, ranging from those published by individual tech firms through to collective initiatives from European and international policy-makers, including the EU, UNESCO and the OECD. After years of successful lobbying by Big Tech claiming that voluntary self-regulation via ethical codes of this kind will address public concerns about the unwanted and unwelcome impacts of AI, the tide is beginning to turn. Recent legal proposals issued by European policy-makers indicate that they now recognise that, left to its own devices, the market cannot be relied upon to protect the fundamental values upon which the European project is founded from the potential threats generated by unregulated AI applications. Yet serious challenges arise in converting the noble principles which these proposed laws claim to uphold into on-the-ground practice. Will the adoption of these proposed laws in fact deliver on the noble, aspirational values that are claimed to underpin them? In this keynote, Karen will reflect critically on the proposed conceptual vehicles and regulatory architecture through which those aspirational principles are translated into practice, arguing that there are serious dangers that these well-intentioned legal initiatives will fall far short of their claimed objectives.
In recent years, ‘AI ethics’ codes have proliferated from a wide variety of sources, ranging from those published by individual tech firms through to collective initiatives from European and international policy-makers, including the EU, UNESCO and the OECD. After years of successful lobbying by Big Tech claiming that voluntary self-regulation via ethical codes of this kind will address public concerns about the unwanted and unwelcome impacts of AI, the tide is beginning to turn. Recent legal proposals issued by European policy-makers indicate that they now recognise that, left to its own devices, the market cannot be relied upon to protect the fundamental values upon which the European project is founded from the potential threats generated by unregulated AI applications. Yet serious challenges arise in converting the noble principles which these proposed laws claim to uphold into on-the-ground practice. Will the adoption of these proposed laws in fact deliver on the noble, aspirational values that are claimed to underpin them? In this keynote, Karen will reflect critically on the proposed conceptual vehicles and regulatory architecture through which those aspirational principles are translated into practice, arguing that there are serious dangers that these well-intentioned legal initiatives will fall far short of their claimed objectives.
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