Keynote Address

AI: Paving the Way to Humanity and Freedom

Giselle Mota of Versd (ISSIP’s 2024 Excellence in Service Innovation Award winner for Impact to Society), will highlight the ways in which AI, and specifically generative AI, is paving the way toward global considerations of humanity and their freedoms by design. She will address how people highlighting risks are leading to opportunities to create good: from bias to ethics and inclusion, from lack of transparency to explainability and democratization, and from concerns of security and privacy to data governance and data agency.

Panel Discussion:

In our kickoff event, conducted in June 2024, our presenters and panelists captured the rough bird’s eye view map of the benefits and risks for of AI for global democracy. In this session, we will explore key points raised, in more detail. Our panelists and moderators, representing the perspectives of academia, industry/NGO and government roles in Japan, Europe (Spain, Austria and the UK) and the US will share, from their professional experience, current efforts to limit risks and maximize benefits of future AI for our democracy. Together we will discuss the major issues we will face using AI toward future democracy.

Panelists:

Takayuki Ito
Professor, Department of Social Informatics, School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Ignacio Criado
Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor (with tenure). Director, ITGesPub Lab Research Group. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Lee Rainie
Director, Imagining the Digital Future Center, Elon University

Jeffrey Borek
WW Program Director, Open Technology & Supply Chain Security, Office of the CISO at IBM

Representing insights and perspectives from Asia, Europe and the Americas, industry, government/NGO and academia.