Speaker: Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton, UK)
Moderator: George Metakides (Digital Enlightenment Forum)
This report outlines a blueprint for addressing AI-related risks and sharing its transformative potential globally. It urges the UN to lay the foundations of the first globally inclusive and distributed architecture for AI governance based on international cooperation, it proposes seven recommendations to address gaps in current AI governance arrangements, and it calls on all governments and stakeholders to work together in governing AI to foster development and protection of all human rights. This includes light institutional mechanisms to complement existing efforts and foster inclusive global AI governance arrangements that are agile, adaptive and effective to keep pace with AI’s evolution.
Short Bio of Dame Wendy Hall:
Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is a member of the United Nations high-level advisory body on AI, the author of this report. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and is Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the ACM. Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017 and a member of the AI Council. She is currently the co-Chair of the ACM Publications Board and Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science. She is an advisor to the UK government and many other governments and companies around the world. Her latest book, Four Internets, co-written with Kieron O’Hara, was published by OUP in 2021.
Short Bio of George Metakides:
George Metakides is visiting professor at the University of Southampton, Adjunct Professor at the European University of Cyprus, President of the Digital Enlightenment Forum, and Advisor to several international organizations. He is involved in the analysis of the economic, political and social impact of digitization, related cybersecurity, data protection and regulatory issues and the promotion of international cooperation towards a digital ecosystem respecting shared human values. With a Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic earned from Cornell University in 1971, he pursued an academic career at MIT, Cornell and Rochester University before returning to Greece as Chair of Logic at the University of Patras. Since 1984 he has held senior positions with responsibility for Research & Development policy, funding and international co-operation in European institutions including the Directorship of the ESPRIT program He has contributed to the establishment of international institutions (including the launch of the World Wide Web consortium in 1993), has received a number of awards and honorary degrees and is a corresponding member of several National Academies.
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