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ISSIP 2024 Event Series: AI Challenges to Global Democracy
ISSIP has more than 90 Ambassadors, each serving as liaison to an organization, initiative, conference or event with a purpose they support. ISSIP Ambassadors may propose and organize a topic for featured exploration within a monthly Series hosted by ISSIP. Typically the Ambassador secures speakers and a moderator, for a single hour virtual panel discussion, featured and promoted on the ISSIP platform.
In 2024, as more than half the world’s population votes in critical elections, ISSIP Ambassador Kazuyoshi Shimada of JST, has brought forward and will moderate dialogue on the topic of AI Challenges to Democracy. Joined by ISSIP Ambassador Christine Leitner for the European/OECD perspective as co-moderator and supported by ISSIP Executive Director Michele Carroll, ISSIP will feature a 3-event series to explore the current state of play of global democracy, threats and opportunities enabled by AI, and how or whether service science can mitigate risk, and safeguard democracy.
Lead / Moderator: Kazuyoshi Shimada – JST
Lead / Moderator: Christine Leitner – CEPA
Event Contact: Michele Carroll – ISSIP
- June 21, 2024: Current State of Play (recording) (presentation)
- August 21, 2024: The Opportunity & Progress Toward Inclusion (Deeper Dive on the Positive) (recording) (presentation)
- September 25, 2024: Defining Next Steps: Research, Development, Funding Priorities (recording) (presentation)
ISSIP defines service as the application of knowledge for the benefit of others, and service science as the study of diverse, interconnected, complex “human-centered value-cocreation systems” in business and society [1]. We believe this definition is closely linked to democracy. Democracy is not just a way of doing politics. It is a guiding value and principle in the heart of a society’s people. In a well-functioning democracy, there is a spirit that seeks to treat every human being as an individual with inherent dignity [2].
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an algorithm that processes data and does not have a spirit as such. What considerations are needed, when creating AI and providing services that use it, to ensure that solutions and outcomes respect the dignity of each person and can contribute to the co-creation of value for a variety of people? How can service science contribute to ensure democracy in AI services? In this series, we will explore the potential for AI to either promote or undermine democracy, examining perspectives from AI service providers, users, regulators, and scientists.
[1] About ISSIP
[2] Ministry of Education (Government of Japan) “Democracy”, (1948) [in Japanese]